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Word: cockatoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Malcolm is busily looking for original ways to feed his cockatoo electronically, Frank's lover, Judith (Linda Davies), moves in. She is a worldly but compassionate woman. What she sees in the crude, abusive Frank is unclear. She is charmed by Malcolm's naivete, and the two become friends...

Author: By Ellen R. Pinchuk, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 10/24/1986 | See Source »

Galah, n.: small pink-and-gray cockatoo, noted for its stupidity; hence, a drongo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Guide to Strine | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...SUPPORTING CAST, on the other hand, is almost uniformly excellent. Eric Elice is very funny, and letter-perfect, as the affected fashion photographer Carbone; he prances through his part like a Middle European cockatoo. Kenneth Ryan excels himself as Alan B. Lebow, a hip filmmaker; Jeremy Geidt is startling as Pittsburgh, the Black saxophonist cum hustler--he uses a gurgling accent that sounds like the rapid pour of a bottle of bourbon. Thomas Derrah takes off brilliantly with a comic interpolation of Richard III--it is this sort of magical appearance of the impossible that makes Lulu so consistently interesting...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Rarefied Body-Surfing | 1/15/1981 | See Source »

...hard to think of Darci slowing her pace. She often works from 10 in the morning until midnight (class, rehearsals, performance) and then forgets to pick up her paycheck. In her apartment near Lincoln Center, her only companion is her cockatoo Lulu, though her parents and brothers visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A New Sunbeam, Traveling Fast | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...Tyne, England, in 1926. Since then a more virulent strain has emerged. It was carried, Government officials suspect, by the rare tropical birds that are smuggled into the U.S., often by illicit drug dealers, and sold to eager buyers at fancy prices: up to $1,300 for a Moluccan cockatoo, or $8,000 for a hyacinthine macaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Animal Trackers | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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