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Word: birdness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubtful that she could ever attain the instant star quality and studied grace of Jackie, or the sensitivity and charm of Lady Bird, but Pat has far outdistanced her own exemplar, Mamie Eisenhower, as White House hostess. More people, 124,805, have passed through the White House during her residence than ever before. Pat also has quietly been carrying on Jackie's restoration, redecorating the Blue, Green and Red rooms and acquiring museum-quality paintings and furnishings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Those Other Campaigners, Pat and Eleanor | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

Head Start and secretary in the pathology department of the University of Virginia. She has one year of college behind her, and hopes to finish up "somewhere." For now she is stumping for her father. She is soon scheduled to begin a Southern campaign swing, accompanied by Lady Bird Johnson's former press secretary, Liz Carpenter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Five for George: the McGovern Offspring | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...20th century is hardly in doubt; nor have many painters since Piero della Francesca displayed such a perfect command over a complex pictorial structure. But in the process he made some of the most mysterious images in modern art: the series of studio interiors, with a white bird flying across them, that preoccupied him in the early 1950s and were his last testament. Their culmination was The Studio VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Objects as Poetics | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...significance of the bird has provoked reams of interpretation. Is it an image of escape? Transcendence? Its importance to Braque was clearly immense. "Happiness starts when we cease to know," he said. "The bird is a summing up of all my art - it is more than painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Objects as Poetics | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...long ago, for example, it was difficult to pulverize poultry cheaply; now hot-dog manufacturers enthusiastically chicken out, cramming up to 15% of their sausages with bird parts. Poultry is one of the more appetizing ingredients. Federal law allows hot dogs to contain such animal features as esophagi, ears, lips and snouts. In the words of Robert Benchley: "Ain't it offal?" And even these ingredients do not exhaust the bad news. Hot dogs are brimming with additives, including sodium nitrite, sodium acid pyrophosphate and glucona delta lactone. Without such chemicals, the hot dog would lose its pink blush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline and Fill of the American Hot Dog | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

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