Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bird of Paradise (20th Century-Fox] splurges Technicolor, lush Hawaiian scenery and anthropological detail on the job of salvaging a 1912 play (and 1932 movie) about ill-starred love in Polynesia. The result is eye-filling and sometimes interesting. But quaint Hollywood customs get in the way of the South Seas folklore...
...Moonrush, the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, by a neck over Next Move. ¶In Hialeah, Fla., Yildiz, the $50,000 Flamingo Stakes for up & coming three-year-olds, by a neck over Timely Reward. ¶In Grand Junction, Tenn., Paladin, a white and liver pointer, the National Bird Dog Championship, after nine days of hang-tongue competition...
...skier. He holds that any fool can learn to slide down an icy hill on a pair of slats. True Skimanship consists of appearing as an expert without actually knowing how to ski. This appearance aids the Skiman's technique in such accompanying winter sports as snow-bunnying and bird-dogging, at which he is generally fairly adroit anyway...
...Bird-dogging,' an ancient and dishonorable sport not listed on the official program, drew the usual number of stags to the Carnival, but the grim tenacity and staying power of the hosts in most cases made it a fruitless enterprise. Dartmouth men are extremely generous, especially on party weekends, but few were disposed towards surrendering their dates without a battle, or at least a few sharp words. Some bird dogs won their letters over the weekend, but only by fighting a war of attrition in which whiskey and sweet words were the principal weapons...
Brancusi, at 74, still labors in a Paris studio, squeezing out streamlined shapes that merely puzzle most people. To the unsympathetic eye, his Bird resembles a propeller blade, his Torso of a Young Man looks like a drainpipe, and his Sculpture for the Blind is strictly for the blind. Walter Arensberg has one of the most respectable explanations of Brancusi's work ever offered. Brancusi, he says, sculps what Plato had in mind by the idea of form: "Plato's 'idea' is the archetype from which the infinite forms of nature derive...