Word: coos
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...Notorious Landlady. "Oyme jus' the parlor mide," says Kim Novak in her best Berlitz cockney. "Are you a sleep-in maid?" asks arch Jack Lemmon, with his eyes doing the twist. "Coo, yew Yanks do kum raht aout wiv it, don't yew?" wuffles the new Eliza Doolittle. "Well, most of it, anyway," says Lemmon, a film comedian who knows how to throw away a line before it deserts...
...slatternly flutter of wings, the voice of hypocrite coo, the unspeakable filth-such are the marks of the city pigeon, that most evil and cunning of birds. Fully a generation ago, a sentient woman, the Sappho of her age, sounded the alarm: "Pigeons on the grass, alas!" Yet, despite this warning, the era of appeasement of these feathered spongers has continued...
...Romeo and Juliet are portrayed as a pair of star crossed puppies, as they are in the Quincy House production, one may coo at their love scenes and pity them when they die, but they can inspire no greater emotion than puppies do. Life goes out of the play when its one full blooded character, Mercutio, dies, and we are left with what is at best a pretty little play, one that merely hints at tragedy...
...test the theory, Josh operated on male doves, inserting small tubes in their gullets to let the air out. Then he made motion pictures and sound recordings of their courting behavior. The birds could still coo rather hoarsely, but they could not inflate their gullets, and they did not complete the courting pattern by bowing to the females. This, explains Josh, indicates that the pattern does not come as a unit from the bird's brain but can be cut short by an external influence...
...country, which he called "the laziest nation in the world; I foresee a generation which will never get out of bed. I advise as many English musicians as possible to leave the country." Married three times-the last time to his 27-year-old secretary, who made him "coo like the proverbial dove"-Sir Thomas always professed surprise at his fearsome reputation. "I am," he would say, "a peaceful and harmless man." The whole trouble was that most people did not "give a rap" about music: "It is a parasitical luxury supported...