Word: feathering
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...hate people coming in from the outside telling us what to do." What support there is for AIM on the reservation is based largely on hostility to the power held by mixed bloods, of which Council President Wilson is the most prominent. A plump, older woman named White Feather, for example, wants the present council thrown out and replaced by full bloods. Referring to Wilson, she complains that "all the jobs here are held by his relatives, and it's us that need the jobs. He controls everything...
...upper balconies, while Bowie and the Martian Spiders blasted their songs with such supersonic zeal that even the squeals from the audience were drowned out. One of Bowie's fans, an 18-year-old girl, looking a little like a Martian herself with green, orange and purple feather boas, red glitter around her eyes and black lipstick, spoke for the squealers: "I wish David Bowie were from Mars. It would be so sexy...
...sort of thing may sound like olw-camp, soft-shoe style, particularly when the words are deprived of the deep adenoidal torque that Art Van Harvey, as Vic, used to put on them. But a true believer can be reduced to the helpless laughter of a hyena in a feather factory by some scenes. At one point, Vic is memorizing the opening ritual for his lodge meeting. Rush is checking and prompting him from a copy made by Miss Gregg, Vic's secretary. The following exchange takes place...
...white and shiny feather falls at my feet...
...certainly is true that Stanislav Andreski's grandmother knew many things that social scientists are now "discovering." I, however, would like Andreski to analyze more of the social science principles his grandmother "knew." For example, my grandparents "knew" that "opposites attract" and that "birds of a feather flock together." In addition, they "knew" that "out of sight, out of mind" and that "absence makes the heart grow fonder...