Word: featherly
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Toad's muscles glowed with well-being. He sported a touraco feather in his slouch hat. He had walked for days out of Kitich, a remote, beautiful camp on the Nyeng River in Northern Kenya, and now was skirting the Mathews Range in sandy, thorny country. Vultures wheeled over a distant lion kill. Toad was walking through heaven...
...interesting painter than one ever expected. His precocity and rate of absorption were equally striking, and they made room for sly humor, as in a pastiche of Caravaggio he did around 1605, when he was barely 30: David with the Head of Goliath, the David sporting a raffishly theatrical feather in his cap as he tilts the severed head like a connoisseur quizzing a sculptor. Some of his key paintings, such as the Prado's extraordinary Atalanta and Hippomenes, in which he achieved a grand synthesis of Caravaggism and classical diction, are missing from Fort Worth. But it is quite...
...finale begins in rather dull trench coats, but it culminates in the night's finest costuming moment--with the actor's bodies more to blame than the costume designers: the revue dancers bare all but their skin-tone bodysuits and pink-feather fans...
...There, over there," says Baker. "That's a hen feather. It's easy to tell hens from gobblers. The gobblers are blacker and have beards. You need any toilet paper, let me know," he says, carefully producing about a dozen neatly folded sheets. "I never come out here without it. Amazing, isn't it, a real challenge...
Intangibles: Beating Penn would be a feather in the Crimson's battered cap. It would mean, as running back Jim Reidy said last week, that the Crimson belonged in the title hunt this year. Last time Harvard travelled to Philadelphia, it fell, 17-10, with a mediocre team. That Penn team went on to post a 10-0 record. Is another close game in the works...