Word: dove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Restaurateur Toots Shor dove off a bar stool and fractured his right wrist a few weeks back, Jackie Gleason, 47, provided as much tease as sympathy. But The Blub is getting last licks. In a TV role, Gleason had to pedal downhill on a bike into a phony brick wall. The wall was supposed to fall away. Instead it fell on him, and lo and behold, a broken left wrist. With his injured appendage safely enslinged, Gleason offered a truce to Toots. "Now," he cracked, "we can go out and buy a pair of gloves together...
...took up wax crayons to create richly colored tropical scenes: surrealist flowers as big as hybrid corn, rosy hieroglyphs of animal life. These symbolic works, some plainly eruptions from his subconscious, show how, in the 1920s and 1930s, his work grew close to that of Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove in a search for a mystical reunion with natural form...
...Hyde performance with a certain duality of our own. We must expose and frustrate the conspirator and negotiate with the patriot. If Mr. Khrushchev is sending a genuine olive branch, then he will find I am perfectly capable of sitting on the branch with him and cooing like a dove...
...natural habitat on European cliffs, the rock dove (Columba livid), with its grey coat, white rump and iridescent head and neck, is an attractive bird. Bred and trained by man, it has become a valiant message carrier, famed for its speed and homing instinct. It has also become a multicolored pest, appealing mainly to snapshooting tourists and aging lonelyhearts who get solace of a sort from feeding the flocks...
...Imperial Valley ranchers hate dove shooting for the damages done to people, pets, wildlife and clothes hanging on the clotheslines. The villagers stay away from the country through fear of being "winged" by trigger-wild Davy Crocketts from the city...