Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quadrangle"-a court enclosed by a wall of varying heights on which would be colored mosaics representing scenes and characters from the Pinocchio story. Sicilian-born Sculptor Greco's entry was a tall semi-abstraction showing the Good Fairy pulling Pinocchio from a tree trunk with a great bird hovering above them. When cast in bronze, Greco's figure will stand a little away from Venturi's magic quadrangle on the grounds of Collodi's stateliest 18th century villa...
...Recently a German Protestant churchman, so the story goes, gave the Pope a cardinal bird. But the old. established birds would have none of the newcomer, and the Protestant cardinal had to leave the papal household...
...evening the family gathered together at a candlelit table in the clubhouse's Trophy Room, for their turkey dinner. Fruit, nuts and corn spilled from a yard-long cornucopia. Before posing with his carving knife upside down on the 39-lb. bird, the President expressed his emotions of the moment: "For the first Thanksgiving in the last four, we sit down to our traditional Thanksgiving feast without the fear of the casualty list hanging over us. We no longer have to worry about the killing in Korea." Then with a slight quaver he continued: "My wife...
...Ewell (Windin' Ball LP). Piano solos patterned after New Orleans' late King Oliver and played in the high honky-tonk tradition; such tunes as Weather Bird Rag and New Orleans Stomp sound almost like the real thing. The third Ewell LP by a young Chicago label...
Hovering in the background of all this, is Vivian's widowed mother, an alcoholic since the death of the daughter who despised her ("My bird, my bird" . . . "She hopped from the cliff like a cricket"). Miss Dunnock seems uncertain whether she should be tragic or pitifully absurd, as she flings hot-dogs around the stage and talks of the husband who never loved her. In any case, she gets little sympathy, least of all from Mrs. Eastman Cuevas, who tells the widow who clutches her hysterically and begs her not to leave: "Stop brooding!", a line reminiscent of Charles Addams...