Word: beaked
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...visual surrealist proving nothing is permanent, McKimson is a show-biz satirist with throw-away gags and celebrity spoofs, Friz Freleng is the least contorting, while Jones's specialty, comic character, is unusual for the chopping-up of motion and the surreal imposition: a Robin Hood duck, whose flattened beak springs out with each repeated faux pas as a reminder of the importance of his primary ineptness), the Warner cartoonists are refreshing iconoclasts because they concentrate on so many other humor antecedents besides brutal mishaps, cultural punning, ballet-like sadism" - then top it with the snappy summation that "the good...
...hard to know precisely when the red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus, is about to attack. The birds tend to swoop in, hitting victims from behind. Sometimes, the birds take turns attacking victims. It's unclear, however, if the red wing attacks from its beak, which is usually sharp and cone-like, or with its feet. Given the bird's size, the danger is more likely to come not from the attack itself, but from the reaction to it. For instance, a newly attacked bicyclist veers into the path of an oncoming bicycle. Or car. Or an attack so deeply traumatizes...
...great motivation for these five girls to kick off the rest of the season,” said assistant coach Christopher Smith, who coached the team in place of head coach Satinder Bajwa for the weekend. “Coming off a long holiday beak, it is a really good sign.” Each player had at least one victory, with Zimmerman sweeping her four matches 3-0. O’Donnell played her best match of the season against Williams’ No. 1, Toby Eyre, defeating her 3-1. Eyre is ranked...
...Cleft, by Doris Lessing Cleft sentence, cleft palate, cleft chin, or the Cleft of Venus? The big, black, water-colored bird doesn’t help with the ambiguity. However, what it does suggest is a topical treatment of an ominous, dark, and tenuous subject. Wings outstretched and beak ever so sharp, the dark bird is fierce and threatening. Yet the blotches of water soften the animal’s shape and remind us that this is, alas, a work of fiction. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s name is megalomaniacally scrawled in regal yellow in the center...
...artist so taken by the sun, Turner was no Apollo. He was short, squat and beak-nosed. The offspring of a London barber, he spoke all his life with a Cockney accent. Even after he started to make good money, which happened soon, his fingernails were caked with pigment, and he kept one of them long, like a blues guitarist does, so that he could use it to scratch directly into the paint. Like Billy Joel or Elton John, he was a commoner who made good...