Word: cockerel
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...France's two publicly quoted poultry producers, is attaching photos of caged hens to its products as a marketing device. So far, though, sales are hardly flying in response. COQ A DOODLE DON'T Stewards at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium will be keeping an eye out for cockerel smugglers when the French rugby squad plays Wales on March 18. For decades, French fans have released a cockerel - the French national emblem - during the game. But last week, an official declared: "Any smuggled bird is a risk." ZOO STORIES Lacking any international standards, European zoos are devising their own strategies...
...publisher, of course, is Harvard University Press, and they have outdone themselves in binding and printing Rudenstine’s volume, combining a tasteful cover image of Memorial Hall with a thick, sweet-smelling paper and a special font (“Golden Cockerel,” for the curious) that offers, according to a note at the end of the volume, a “face of notable heft, with a dense color on the page and sharp serifs reminiscent of the carver’s chisel.” The intended effect, obviously, is one of words hewn...
...time on the road, as he recalls now, playing concerts and club gigs, getting a lavender tan from stage lights, finding his moments of repose watching the mysterious turning, turning of airport carrousels, living a life that made more money than sense. A song he wrote in those cockerel days yipped, "I can't stop more than just a few minutes, baby, make love to you, hey, hey, hey, I'm on the road again." Now when he sings it, a rooted New Hampshire householder with a wife and two young sons, there is a note of amazement...
Male rockers continue to rule. Joni Mitchell (TIME cover, Dec. 16, 1974) is the most stylish of the women singers to appear in the past decade, but her music is too cerebral for her to compete in drawing power with the cockerel crowing of the men. Somewhat to her own surprise, it is Linda Ronstadt who has made herself one of the biggest individual rock draws in the world. Elton John, Stevie Wonder, John Denver, Paul McCartney and Peter Frampton, among others, are bigger. Then comes Linda, the chicklet who shows up onstage wearing peasant blouses, cutoff jeans, subteen knee...
...wide fraternity of athleticism. Reserved, almost withdrawn as a boy, he read every book in the local library. Later, because he was essentially lonely, he became a joiner. In 1918, his field-artillery regiment was sent to France, where Captain Truman for the first time on record displayed the cockerel courage that was to characterize his career. Later he recalled his greeting to the battery: "I told them I knew they had been making trouble for the previous commanders. I said, 'I didn't come over here to get along with...