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...others, however, a garage might seem luxurious. Jim Bird, 38, is living in his yellow 1975 Plymouth Fury in a parking lot in Studio City. A divorced former homeowner from Riverside, Bird is one of some 5,000 automobile dwellers in the San Fernando Valley. Unemployed, he could not afford a home when he last worked, at $5 an hour. Says he: "There is just no way you can pay rent with that...
...simple to call Detroit Basketball Star Isiah Thomas the flip side of Campanis, though he squirmed similarly after endorsing a rookie teammate's view that the Boston Celtics' Larry Bird is a three-time MVP essentially because he is white. Later, Thomas claimed he was only joking when he said, "If Bird was black, he'd be just another good guy." But if by "just another good guy" he meant Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and himself, the statement is not so unreasonable, and his amplification about stereotyping ought not to have been lost in the apology. "When Bird makes...
...what kind of a bird...
...article on the surge of interest in birding included the observation by Paul Sykes that "the bird can also leave just before you get there." As all birders come to know, there is a corollary to this that says, "After sighting a particular species you have chased for years, three of them will perch on the hood of your car as you start for home...
...avid collector of rare birds, but he himself was perhaps the rarest bird of all: a seasoned, moderate Lebanese politician of nearly 40 years' experience who was trusted by most of his country's warring factions. By the time he was assassinated last week, in the explosion of a bomb aboard his military helicopter, Rashid Karami, 65, had served ten times as Lebanon's Prime Minister. The country's Maronite Christian President Amin Gemayel -- whose brother Bashir had been killed by a bomb in 1982 -- quickly named another Sunni Muslim, Selim Hoss, as acting Prime Minister. Suspects in the murder...