Word: catbird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sports! Photographs by Neil Leifer; text by George Plimpton; foreword by Red Smith (Abrams; 192 pages; $29.95). As a top photographer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Neil Leifer sat in the catbird seat through nearly two decades of Olympic Games, World Series, Kentucky Derbys, heavyweight championship fights. So there is much in this huge, flawlessly reproduced collection that is born of the right time and the right place. But Leifer also sat on teetering ladders, leaned out of helicopters, strapped himself or his cameras along rails on the homestretch, or under ski jumps. Searching for the special angle, he found a special...
...devastating 'T from the zebras. Jimmy Reynolds connected on one of two technical tosses, and S.C. kept possession of the spheroid. Graziano, who finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds, was fouled again. This time he hit both free throws, and Frank McGuire's squad was in the catbird seat with a 52-46 lead...
Haymore--as always, the giant standing in the way of Crimson victory--took charge at that point, banging home three close-in baskets in the next two minutes to put the Minutemen in the catbird seat...
Field goal range. Victory. The catbird seat. Thoughts now turned to (a) hanging on to the ball and (b) giving the kicker the best possible situation and field placement to do his thing. The offense had three plays to get the ball in the middle of the field for kicker Gary Bosnic...
...garden and another that has nested under Andrew Jackson's magnolia. The mockingbirds are getting into the concord grapes, which are just turning juicy in the arbor. There are in fact about 16 kinds of permanent bird residents on the White House's 18 acres-catbird, house finch, downy woodpecker, fish crow, rock dove, gold finch. And another 38 kinds drop by for visits. A couple of Mallard scooted in to see the South Fountain. Evenden, lurking in the bushes, spotted itinerant yellow-throats, towhees, pewees, chickadees, ruby-throated hummingbirds, red-eyed vireos and a red-breasted nuthatch...