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Word: birdness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't balk at recounting more commonplace exploits that we can sympathize with: for example, his bumbling adolescent sexual adventures, reminiscent of those of Holden Cauldfield and Woody Allen. But although ordered, it is not cohesive, and appeals mainly to a circle of dedicated admirers curious about this "queer bird's" personal history and feelings about himself. The episodic sit-on-my-knee-grandson-and-I'll-tell-you-a-story style might well put the general reader to sleep before grandpa...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Totem and Taboo | 3/19/1976 | See Source »

...filmed A Doll's House in Norway, The Blue Bird in the Soviet Union, and now Actress Jane Fonda has begun her first Hollywood movie in three years. Titled Dick and Jane, the film has Fonda, now 38, in the role of a suburban housewife who fights the recession with a little bit of larceny. Off-camera, of course, the actress-activist keeps busy as a speechmaker and fund raiser for her husband, Senate Candidate Tom Hayden, 36, of Chicago Seven fame. "I have a lot of energy," says Jane of her moonlighting, "and I don't waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 8, 1976 | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...SALE. Old château-cozy rooms-observatory turrets-bird's-eye view of countryside-moss-lined alcoves containing sparkling gems looted from best jewel caskets of European nobility-occupants ready to leave at moment's notice-agent on premises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last Symbolist Poet | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

Spiro had "a certain aura of being cool," says Emile Lafourcade, secretary of Spiro's fraternity. "Anyone who could drive around in a new T-Bird when everybody else was going around in '59 junk-heaps had something up on the rest...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: A Rose by Any Other Name | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

When Rotterdam walked into the building Tuesday and saw the roasted bird, he said yesterday, "I asked myself, 'Is Carpenter Center really a dead place...

Author: By Lisa Brown, | Title: Chicken Sculpture | 3/4/1976 | See Source »

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