Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nibble on-in the kitchen of the Peking Hotel, an immaculate, white-tiled temple of taste employing 115 cooks and helpers. Sniffing and sampling as she went, she paused over the array of delicacies-goldfish in white sauce, egg rolls rampant on a field of seaweed, steamed baby bird couchant on clamshell pastry-and with the judicious eye of a diner selecting one from Column A and one from Column B. In the vegetable carving room, where chefs sculpted 6-ft. radishes, turnips, carrots and sugar beets into decorative flowers, she picked up a radish carnation, placed...
...villa with his own supplies of bottled water, tapioca, steak and ketchup. When a dinner invitation came from Acapulco's social pinnacle -the white marble mansion of Actress Merle Oberon and her Mexican industrialist husband Bruno Pagliai -L.BJ. said no thanks, he'd drop by afterward. Lady Bird demurred, but Lyndon isn't about to do anything he doesn't want to do these days. "Bird," he said, "you know I'm not goin' to eat anywhere but here...
...they lead Terry in and Mr. Chick sucks in the air his cheeks are puffed out and his eyes bug out and his shoulders draw back in the classical Chick and all of the sudden the little man with the beerbelly is a hulking 30 pounds bigger, a devil bird about to tear apart the cop station and Terry has this big bruise over his eye you know, either from running into a branch drunk as a skunk with the cops charged in or from banging his head against the cage in the cop car, and Terry says...
...starlings had found Radford a most enticing spot. They could feast on the grain that local farmers set out to feed their cattle, and they discovered an especially thick two-acre bosque of warm pines in the center of town, which was an ideal roosting place. The townsfolk, bird lovers all, did not find the situation all that ideal. Radford's starlings 1) raised an ear-splitting racket, 2) produced so many droppings that the whole town, said a resident, smelled "like a wet chicken coop," and 3) crowded out indigenous birds like cardinals, robins and martins. Since...
Immense flocks of fast-breeding starlings, a bird originally native to Europe, are plaguing other communities. "We've gotten calls from at least eight other localities that want to break up roosts," says Don Gnegy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In Richmond, Va., there are about 275,-000 starlings concentrated in wooded areas on the west side of the city...