Word: birding
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...past two weeks, passersby near 44 Bow St. may have noticed a large, copper bird sporting pince-nez spectacles on its beak nesting atop the Lampoon castle...
...Harvard bird watching has been spotty since October of 1996 when unknown pranksters stole the Ibis from the roof of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
Best Sculpture Bird in Space by Constantin Brancusi (this version...
This totemic reduction of nature--the streamlining of a bird's body, the swish of its flight--was a prediction of the technological world to come in the second half of the century. RUNNERS-UP Guitar by Pablo Picasso; The Chariot by Alberto Giacometti...
...wildly. The crowd loves it. The doves appear, each one flailing its wings for a few seconds of chaos and quasi-freedom. Then the magician, with fluid nonchalance, grabs the dove from the air, two-handed, making from the explosion of feathery white a smooth inanimate sculpture of a bird. Then in one swift motion he shoves the dove into a small cage, with little steel bars, on a stand by his waist. Once inside, the doves sit docilely, staring ahead through the tiny silver bars. Though there is a hole just behind them, they sit, cooing--one dove, then...