Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRDS. Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel, California least tern, the Aleutian Canada and Tule white-fronted goose, Laysan and Mexican duck, California condor, Florida Everglade kite, Southern bald eagle, masked bobwhite, whooping crane, Yuma and light-footed clapper rails, Eskimo curlew, Puerto Rican parrot, American ivory-billed woodpecker and Northern and Southern red-cock-aded woodpeckers, Laysan and Nihoa finches, Bachman's and Kirtland's warblers, dusky seaside and Cape Sable sparrows, and Hawaii's duck, goose, hawk, stilt, crow, gallinule and coot...
...Goddess. All that's exciting in the new cast of cinema characters is prepotently present in Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave. They look, to begin with, like no other actresses currently facing clapper cues?and certainly not like each other. Both are tall, but Vanessa is the taller by a smidgen; at 5 ft. 10½ in., she is the skyscrapingest screen queen in filmsville. (Garbo, though her pressagent insisted that she was only 5 ft. 7, wore flat heels in Grand Hotel but still swayed high above John Barrymore, whose pressagent insisted that he stood 5 ft. 10.) For her height...
...audience that strikes up the overture. It is a kind of barnyard symphonette. The Hummer and the Time Beater serve as the rhythm section; the Cellophane Crinkler and the Program Rattler handle the solos. In the percussion section, the principal performers are the Bracelet Jangler and the Premature Clapper, while special effects are contributed by the Knuckle Cracker and the Watch Wind er. The Coughers' Chorale is directed by the Dry-Throated, Red-Nosed Hacker, whose feeblest lead always gets a resounding antiphonal response. The entire performance is choreographed by Fidgeter, produced and upstaged by that notorious team...
...Cape Cod, birders chalked up two Razor-Billed Auks, six Ring-Necked Ducks, one Barrow's Golden-Eye, a rare, deep-Arctic male King Eider, two Clapper Rails, a Yellow-Breasted Chat, and an unprecedented 25 Pine Grosbeaks. In Cocoa, Fla., Veteran Birder Allan Cruickshank, one of the nation's foremost experts, claimed a record 191 species for his group, including the Fulvous Tree-Duck and two Brewer's Blackbirds...
...song and keeping time with his midsection. Then he does a little tap dance, insults the bandmaster, sticks his cane in the trombone and leers as he wiggles it around, tells a joke ("The old church bell won't ring tonight as the vicar's got the clapper") that nobody laughs at, so he tries another song: "Thank God we're normal (bump), normal (bump), normal (bump)!" Somebody in the audience groans: "Where did they...