Word: cockatoo
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...century stucco head from the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque, which is clearly a portrait, perhaps of the ruler Pacal II. Yet even in this effigy of an individual, the great bladelike nose and the forward sweep of the headdress like the comb of a cockatoo suggest a hieratic type...
...twelve windows represented in "Masterworks" pulse with a colorist's verve and ingenuity. Here are familiar nouveau nature themes: profusions of rowdy blooms and bursting vines, roe deer and sailboats bobbing on azure seas. In the 9-ft.-tall Cockatoo and Parakeet, a bird with opalescent feathers pecks at vibrant cherries. In the magnificent Landscape Triptych, Tiffany played with shade and light in a glade to produce landscape poetry worthy of the Hudson River school of painting. Vase of Red Peonies, dominated by a glorious clot of blossoms, prefigures abstraction...
They disappeared behind the trees as I stepped into the van. But I could still hear the cockatoo screeching as we drove from the rainforest and down the mountain to civilization...
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...
Galah, n.: small pink-and-gray cockatoo, noted for its stupidity; hence, a drongo...