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Word: birdness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excellent acting. But most companies wisely steer clear of this play and opt for better known and better loved works that can carry their own weight. A performance of Two Gentlemen, in its original form (a musical version was produced here two years ago), is a justifiably rare bird...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Bad Bard in Boston | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...writing is spare but flowing, with no set tense. Common nouns are idiomatic; a digs-with-mouth is a badger and a cloud-bird is an eagle. Mahto terms appear regularly, pta for buffalo and itancan for leader. And although the style at first seems ponderous and tedious, it soon becomes soothing. Like the book, it is steady and predictable. Also like the book, however, it is not for everyone...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Perpetuating an American Stereotype | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

...radical for whom the sixties never ended, who cracks jokes about the nuclear shit hitting the fan and the plant exploding. While the plant's P.R. man (James Hampton, a veteran of T.V.'s "F-Troop" and "Rockford Files") proudly displays the space-age control room from the bird's eye perspective of the visitor's gallery, the shit indeed hits the fan. The building shakes, buzzers blast, and control panel lights flash like a Christmas tree gone beserk. Douglas surreptitiously films the panic unfolding below him, focusing on the contorted face of supervisor Jack Godell (Jack Lemmon...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Countdown To Meltdown... | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...hand, and the official Chinese news agency, Hsinhua, on the other. Hsinhua was particularly par simonious, limiting itself mostly to unenlightening announcements that "fighting was continuing." Consequently, most information and judgments came from other Asian capitals far from the front and from Washington, which provided bird's-eye data gleaned by reconnaissance satellites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Through a Glass, Darkly | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...that Christmas bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Billing the Doc | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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