Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of those gathered in the historic building had helped to make history during the past 30 years: Senator Eugene McCarthy, Lady Bird Johnson, General William Westmoreland, Judge John Sirica, Buckminster Fuller, Julia Child, Van Cliburn, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. They were talking with a dozen artists who had been associated with them and other leading figures in a special way-painting or sculpturing portraits for the cover of TIME...
...TIME portrait in his den ("My law clerks gave it to me"), but General Westmoreland had a different attitude. "My house is a home, not a museum," he declared. "Besides, any recognition I got was attributable to my troops, who did a magnificent job." And Lady Bird Johnson did not want to talk about her por trait at all. She graciously steered conversations to the exhibit as a whole: "It's a glittering thumbnail sketch of the last 25 years...
...elected Governor of Idaho before moving to Washington to become Secretary of the Interior last year. He revisited them last week, floating down the Snake in an inflatable rubber "snout boat" and heading to shore frequently to stop and survey the vistas. "I've been watching that old bird for years," said Andrus as he removed his battered stetson and stooped to peer through a telescope at a golden eagle perched like a gargoyle on a precipice. The eagle was not the only acquaintance Andrus renewed on the trip, which was organized by a private, nonprofit group called...
Kaufman as a child may remind readers of the fugitive youth in Jerzy Kosinki's The Painted Bird. Kaufman the avenger is also reminiscent of Kosinski's Cockpit and Blind Date. But there is a crucial difference. Kosinski's fiction is cold, clinical, beyond ideaology or feeling. In the Eighth Sin, vengeance is passionate, even humane. Though the book's structure is somewhat programmatic. Kaufer, a senior editor of time, has given the familiar documentary evidence of the death camps and their aftermath a persuasive and moving life in fiction...
...reading period (you heard it here first), at least to judge by the worried looks of the students who hurry by, books in hand and heads hung low. And even that rare species of bird that is known as the rock reviewer falls prey to the incipient fear of academic probation officers rousing one from a deep sleep in the dead of night to inform you of your coming year abroad, to begin at once. All of which is to say that I am not the inimitable Rich (go ahead and cast a furtive glance down to the byline...