Word: birding
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Messiaen’s 1944 expression of faith fluctuates from dissonant cluster chords, to intricate meters based on Hindu and Greek rhythms, to sleepy chant-like melodies, to exuberant bird calls. Taylor played the complete 176-page score from memory at Columbia University’s Miller Theater to glowing praise for his precise and tender interpretation...
...Where in hell is the bird? Where is the bird?" shouted a space engineer at Cape Canaveral. "Oh, my God!" cried a teacher from the viewing stands nearby. "Don't let happen what I think just happened." Nancy Reagan, watching television in the White House family quarters, gasped similar words. "It exploded," murmured Brian French, a senior at Concord High School in New Hampshire, as the noisy auditorium fell quiet. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., scientists turned away from their remarkable new photographs of the distant planet Uranus and stared, stunned, at the telecast from Florida...
Bogart conceived the characters of her play as crows and ravens, bird species whose mating rituals are mirrored by those of the human characters in her play...
...fashion isn't the only field where the past is important. It's a vital part of every form of art. People would be shocked to see the Christmas card I got from the contemporary artist Tracey Emin. It's a beautifully drawn bird--very romantic. The work of Tracey and artists like her may seem far from painting, but they all know the bases--of painting, of sculpture, of drawing...
...Electric Tree: An electronic community bulletin board, connected to a website where locals can post messages that are relayed through a screen and a loudspeaker disguised as a bird...