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...memory returns. The night of Clinton's first inauguration, in January, 1993, I went to dinner in Washington with a group of media types. I sat next to a well known columnist and television talking head whom I have always thought of as the Beaking Bird: With his alert, black-button eyes and his sharp nose, he resembles that toy perpetual-motion bird forever bobbing, like a metronome, on the rim of a glass and dipping its beak, quite pointlessly, in the water...
...points out one goose with a bump on his beak. It makes sense that Little Brook has named the goose Bumpy...
Think again. A new France is taking shape at the dawn of the 21st century. Like a newborn chick pecking out of its protective shell, the fledgling is only partly visible--a beak here, a claw there--but already it has begun to reveal a dynamic, high-tech nation in which the old state-controlled system will give way to a more decentralized, privatized and entrepreneurial society. Says former Socialist Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn: "We're becoming a country like any other...
...such a sweet, frictionless light that from a hilltop I see the Catskills across the Hudson, miles to the west. In a wetland by the road, a great blue heron prospects for frogs, standing poised in the early evening clarity, utterly still... then strikes with a lightning flash of beak. At my approach, the heron rouses itself in a cumbersome fluster, and rises in the air and flaps off in prehistoric, slow-motion grace, topping the red pines...
...team of 25 animators toiled to achieve two or three seconds of footage a day, as Lord and Park patrolled the tiny sets like the barons of Brobdingnag. The Aardman shop buzzed with the work of painters, press molders and a gent known as the mouth-and-beak-replacement coordinator...