Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Report was published." ∙∙∙ Discharged from suburban Washing ton's Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he was laid up after his heart attack (TIME, July n), Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, once a fast-moving workhorse but now slowed to a walk, went with wife Lady Bird to his home in the capital, where he was greeted by neighbors and his dog, "Little Beagle Johnson." He planned to go back to Texas later this month, to the Mayo Clinic in December for checkups...
...wish to register a vigorous objection to such daring advertising . . . May I remind you the Cardinal is a bird that nests around the home...
...black-masked bird with unsavory instincts, the shrike impales its prey on a thorn. In human form, the impaler is Ann Downs (tautly played by June Allyson), the impaled victim is husband Jim (Ferrer), the thorn their marriage. In flashbacks, the wife is shown mothering and dominating docile Jim. When his theatrical career crumbles for want of ever more inner props, Jim tries, in despair, to attach himself to another woman (Joy Page). But her reluctance to play Mom finally drives him to a jar of sleeping pills...
Distraught Marietta tries in various ways to exclude the worst of her mixed elements: she bars her ivory tower to poor MacDougal (symbol of Scotch commerce), spends hours doting on a road runner bird (symbol of the Old Spanish Southwest) in the pet department at Woolworth's (23rd Street branch). She opens her door to a bevy of characters as split-and-mixed as herself; they spin poetic stories in a troubadourish vein, seek peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances...
...Moon School, often dispensed with such traditional props as water vases and bamboo tubes, using instead a tiny flower or bud stuck in an empty lipstick container, the cap off a toothpaste tube or an empty perfume bottle. Sofu even went so far as to dye flowers, incorporate red bird feathers, use dried grass, withered leaves and dead flowers. A current popular Sofu arrangement: a dead lotus pod with a purple delphinium...