Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oddest celebrations is the Great Gobbler Gallop in Cuero, Texas, a town of 7,000 that raises 200,000 turkeys a year. There, a local fowl named Ruby Begonia disgraced the honor of Texas by losing to a bird named Paycheck from Worthington, Minn. But the gaiety...
...flow of breath, and as unbroken. For even the shape of the dance's impulse is that of subjective emotional experience; the rhythm moves as a seamless whole, each suspended pose not a break but a pulse-point, the peak of the wing-beat of a soaring bird. The realm of personal feeling is a continuum, and so are these forms: the body lines smoothed clean into curves, all weight belied by the tracery of pointe-work, every arabesque hovering at the edge of flight...
...Princess Margaret, presided over the independence ceremonies that made Dominica the Western Hemisphere's 30th sovereign state. As the Union Jack was hauled down in Windsor Cricket Park, it was replaced by the country's sassy new multicolored flag emblazoned with a green Sisserou parrot, the national bird...
Producer Harold Prince took what pop did to art and applied it to drama in his 1966 play, It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman. Though the show flopped on Broadway--folding after 129 performances--it made stage history of a kind. This was the first time a comic book hero was ever adapted to the stage, and treated as a serious work...
...craftsmanship and the tone are suggestive of Andrew Wyeth, but the new painting of Lady Bird Johnson is in fact by New Yorker Aaron Shikler, best known for the official White House portraits of President John F. Kennedy and his widow Jacqueline Onassis. Commissioned by Jane Engelhard, widow of Industrialist Charles Engelhard, the Lady Bird canvas was painted in Texas last spring when the bluebonnets were in bloom, and will be on permanent display at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin. Said Lady Bird last week: "I'm crazy about it. I feel very much in tune with...