Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...houses two large cranes, symbols in the Far East of longevity and prosperity. The bomb shelter is overgrown with weeds and largely ignored by the populace. "It is marked for demolition," explained one of our official escorts. "We have other uses for the brick and iron." The nearby bird cage, by contrast, is the center of activity in the park. On the afternoon of our arrival, a squad of preteenage girls, dressed in uniforms consisting of white blouses and black trousers and wearing the red bandannas of the Pioneer Communist Youth Organization, marched around the cage. Three off-duty soldiers...
...Bird has ruffled feathers. The avian star is vying for attention with a newcomer on Sesame Street-Dakota Starblanket. Dakota will join the cast in April and May to teach children the meaning of sibling rivalry. "Big Bird represents the child viewer," explains Dakota's mother, Buffy Sainte-Marie, 36, a regular Sesame Street guest. "He and I were friends. I even took him to New Mexico's Taos Indian pueblo to tape a show. Now suddenly here's my baby and my husband, Sheldon Wolfchild. Big Bird feels in the way." The singer originally went...
...Miklos Petrovics, 40, seized two employees of a Culver City, Calif, branch of Bank America, demanded that the bank's air be filtered through bird seed, that the manager "cleanse himself in the ocean" and that "everyone join hands, walk to the ocean and meditate." Result: an FBI agent talked him into surrendering...
...quieter and more efficient supersonic planes. By banning the plane, New York would exclude itself from this pioneering process-an odd role for a city that prides itself on being a pacesetter for the world. Thus, before Concorde service at J.F.K. is ruled detrimental to the commonweal, the big bird deserves at least a chance to demonstrate-in a carefully monitored test-that it is not quite the monster its critics contend...
...imagination has been racing eastward. The effect on his poetry is often a studied inscrutability-purposeful but somehow aimless journeys through a landscape of clouds and mountains. Some of his poems seem like private mantras: "Dark rain at/ winter solstice/ and in the morning/ rosemary under clear sky/ bird on south doorstep/ poised like a stone...