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That this mission enabled him not only to survive but to become famous still seems incredible. At the outset, most of his contemporaries scoffed at this upstart crow with no known training in either art or ornithology. Audubon scoffed back. In 1824 he managed to antagonize the Philadelphia scientific community and could find no publisher for his swelling collection of bird paintings. Two years later, he departed for England, where, togged out in backwoods garb, he wowed the sophisticates, arranged a publishing deal and oversaw the realization of his dream...
...NEWT, MOUTH OF CROW...
...seen enough milk-mustache ads to make you lactose intolerant, along come the wags at Comedy Central to milk the image some more. In a parody that will appear in the normally rather sober Advertising Age trade magazine, NEWT GINGRICH, bearing a feather mustache, gives his advice on eating crow. "The key is start early. With just a few feathers a day," says the copy. "Then when the time comes to swallow the whole bird, you won't gag a bit." The American Dairy Association isn't a Comedy Central advertiser, but its sister organization, the California Milk Advisory Board...
Among the participants were Elizabeth Crow, editor-in-chief of Made-moiselle, Peggy Northrop, a senior editor of Glamour, Timothy Johnson, medical editor for ABC News and several officials of the Harvard Eating Disorders Center...
When the nominees for the 39th annual Grammy Awards were announced last week, a lot of familiar, if not shopworn, names were on the list, including Bryan Adams, Sheryl Crow and Journey. There were also, thankfully, some fresh, exciting names--the Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees certainly deserved their nomination in the Album of the Year category, as teenage country crooner LeAnn Rimes did hers for Best New Artist. But one name stood out from all the others. Or rather, kind of leaned against the wall, looking cooler than everyone else in the vicinity in a throwback...