Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boring . . . There the weather is beautiful at sunrise and it does not change until night. Such immutable happiness is tiring." He dived off the reefs and never forgot the colors of the madrepores and the absinthe-green water; these appear in cut-outs like Polynesia, 1946, or The Bird and the Shark, 1947, as images of a spectacular and, on the whole, beneficent nature...
...teams of reporters. Unfortunately, there were no tape recorders whirring in the Kennedy car when it went off Dike Bridge, resulting in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne. The Johnson wealth, stemming mostly from a highly profitable Austin radio and TV station whose stock was held in Lady Bird's name, proved impossible to trace fully. The reporting on Teddy was far from protective; opinion polls show most Americans do not believe his story-and his chance of becoming President has been severely damaged. As for L.B.J., he was forced to forgo a run for re-election...
...George Will and David Broder of the Washington Post Writers Group; Ellen Goodman, whose hip and compassionate Boston Globe commentary is also distributed by the Post Group; Jeff MacNelly, the Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist who next week will launch with the Trib-News syndicate a comic strip about a bird who edits a newspaper; New York News Funnyman Gerald Nachman (TIME, Aug. 23,1976); and, most recently, Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, a pair of Washington veterans whose six-month-old investigative column promises to match Jack Anderson scoop for scoop...
...breed's genetic instincts. Such survival is by no means guaranteed: more than one breed has been destroyed for field purposes by specialized breeding aimed at conforming to the exacting-and too often substantially different-standards of the show ring. Cocker spaniels, for example, were once superior bird dogs; years of overbreeding have resulted in spaniels that cannot tell a pigeon from a pothole. Says American Kennel Club Field Representative Bob Bartel...
...little cars are making the scene as mobile billboards. Some 5,200 Beetleboards are now bringing Pop art to the highways and streets of 253 communities, and their number is expected to double by year's end. The idea of putting wheedle on wheels came to Charles Bird, now 36, a former Los Angeles advertising consultant. Beetle owners who qualify -their cars must be insured and log at least 1,000 miles a month for "exposure" -get a free paint job along with the advertising motif, plus $20 a month. Aimed initially at college kids, the campaign has enlisted...