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...stuffed, gap-toothed hippos. It also features the fossilized skeleton of a giant sloth, a prehistoric creature that--like some college students today--slept 22 hours a day and woke only to eat. And for a positively thrilling afternoon you can't miss "Songs of the Spring Warblers," recorded bird-songs accessible by the touch of a button...
Back in his daydreaming mode, MacCready drove on, watching a red-tailed hawk circling above. Estimating the bird's bank angle and timing its circles, he calculated its speed, then did the same with a black vulture. His mind drifted to hang gliders and sailplanes, conjured up scaling laws to compare their flying characteristics with those of the birds, and suddenly focused on man- powered flight...
...take little fragments of information and synthesize something totally unexpected out of them. A news clipping, a little thing on the evening news, something that he sees while going down the street." Often, while driving with Tombach, MacCready will suddenly look out the window and exclaim, "Look at the bird. See what he's doing...
Charlie Parker is in business. That's right. Bird's Billie's Bounce, once a touchstone of bebop, has lately found a second, alternate life. Played on videotape at seminars organized by the Center for Creative Leadership, the Bounce rebounds off the consciousness of assembled managers and executives, freeing them to pursue the goals of increased productivity and higher profits in a very timely fashion...
...twelve windows represented in "Masterworks" pulse with a colorist's verve and ingenuity. Here are familiar nouveau nature themes: profusions of rowdy blooms and bursting vines, roe deer and sailboats bobbing on azure seas. In the 9-ft.-tall Cockatoo and Parakeet, a bird with opalescent feathers pecks at vibrant cherries. In the magnificent Landscape Triptych, Tiffany played with shade and light in a glade to produce landscape poetry worthy of the Hudson River school of painting. Vase of Red Peonies, dominated by a glorious clot of blossoms, prefigures abstraction...