Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GREAT FALLS, MONT, (goal: $100,000) mounted a big red plywood rooster on the marquee of a department store. Each $20,000 raised supplied the bird with one feather for its tail...
...Angeles' Lee Mullican, 32, is a lanky (6 ft. 4 in.), transplanted Oklahoman with prematurely grey hair and a bird's-eye approach to art. His bright abstractions have a rarefied upper-air look, almost as if they were terrain studies done from 30,000 ft. There is good reason for this. Lee Mullican discovered his personal art style as a member of a topographical battalion in World War II- drawing operations maps from aerial photographs...
Concerning your Oct. 13 cover, showing a bird perched atop the Washington Monument: Is it a U.S. eagle or a BIR vulture? It looks like you let "Form 1040" influence your ornithology...
...early - "i would/ suggest that certain ideas gestures/ rhymes, like Gillette Razor Blades/ hav ing been used and reused/ to the mystical moment of dullness emphatically are/ Not To Be Resharpened" - left many "tra ditional" poets blitzed and unforgiving. He is antiscientific : I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance He is the foremost celebrant of love among modern poets -"we're wonderful one times one" is a reiterated theme. "I have no sentimentality at all. If you haven't got that...
With him in the section these days are three or four other regulars (depending on the music to be played), who operate everything from bass drum to bird whistles. Goodman plays on kettles he made himself in his Yonkers shop. Next to his pride in producing a perfectly sustained tone and his ability to tune his instruments to perfect pitch while the orchestra is playing, is his pride in his patented devices for simplified timpani tuning. He has sold kettledrums at $600 a pair to the major U.S. orchestras and to some foreign ones...