Word: buzzard
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William Faulkner had a thing about privacy. "If I were reincarnated," he once told a friend, "I'd want to come back as a buzzard. Nothing hates him, or envies him, or wants him, or needs him; he's never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything...
...already evil is stirring-like a chick buzzard, in the author's fondly turned simile, already pecking its way through its shell. Chief evildoer is Randy's guardian, wicked Judge Ball. Under the terms of the will, Randy comes into full control of his money when he marries. The judge would find this awkward because he has stolen most of the money...
...buzzard is now full-grown and he flaps up an enormous storm. Also whirling about in the tornado are a superhumanly powerful dwarf who lurks in treetops and confuses Laurie Mae with his dead mother; an ex-cop who loves Jesus, liquor and sleeping with daughter, but not in that order; and a skinny blackmailer with a fat tootsie named Sugar Dolly...
...Watch and Ward Society. As self-appointed judge and jury of the city's morals, the society pounced on the tiniest infractions of "good taste." Playwright Ben Hecht, who used the words "bitch" and "bastard" in one of his plays, was forced to change them to "dame" and "buzzard." Lindsay-Crouse's famed Life With Father rang repeatedly with the exclamation. "Oh, God!" In Boston it had to be changed...
...small talk, and was often abstracted; stalking around Oxford with his pipe in his teeth, he frequently passed close friends in the street without seeing them, or with only a cursory nod. He once told an interviewer: "If I were reincarnated. I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him; he is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything...