Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...photograph was taken, Duncan received what may well be the modern art world's ultimate honor. On his 46th birthday, Duncan was summoned to Picasso's studio. There on the artist's easel was a drawing of Duncan, right elbow raised high as he shoots a bird staring straight into the lens of his camera. "Photographers always used to say, 'Look at the birdie,' " laughed Picasso. "O.K. There's the bird, and there you are too. Happy birthday...
...Marie-Thérése are to pleasure, the portraits of Dora Maar that cluster round Guernica and continue through World War II are to pain. One cannot look at the terrifying, dislocated features of Weeping Woman, 1937 (42), or Picasso's cat tearing up a live bird (46), without recognizing them as indictments of war. The climax of Picasso's concern was of course Guernica, 1937. This enormous canvas was Picasso's counterpart to Goya's Third of May and Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People, and it has become, if anything, more...
...BIRD, medium-length hair that is straightened and then set in large, soft curls...
...contest winner was bland enough: Freedom's Futile Flight. A few of the other, somewhat more imaginative entries: Red Airing (second prize), Ping Pong Express, Tricky Dickie's Chicken Ship, Neville Chamberlain Express, Yellow Bird, Judas Jet, Air Farce One, Asian Flew, DingALing Dickie's Rickety Red Rickshaw and Go Mao, Pay Later...
...change in roles takes getting used to. Vernon Goodin, an early bird by nature, found himself racing through traffic to get to court on time, then relaxed when he realized "I'm the judge. They can't start without me." Gunther Detert remembers thinking that he would have trouble with objections to evidence. "But it came easy," he said after presiding over a fire-damage case. "I could see it a mile off. The real area of work was preparing instructions for the jury. The court people, the clerk and reporter and bailiff, keep you right on track...