Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hoddy had a golden eagle, a twelve-year-old female named Fluff, and he wanted it in the show. The show, while accepting Hoddy's proposal, wanted a bald eagle-national bird and all that-instead of a golden. The one picked came from the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., where it had lived for 22 years virtually without flying. Its name was Bomber, and according to Hoddy, "it looked like a little butterball turkey...
...understudy got the part and showed it had the mettle. Rehearsing to the strains of Fame, Fluff wheeled on a thermal, eyed Hoddy, heard the music ("I'm gonna live forever!/ I'm gonna learn how to fly!"), dive-bombed the field and hit the perch without a hitch. There was applause all around. The eagle had landed. But a vigorous press got wind of Bomber's fatal stress, and the controversy that followed sadly resulted in Fluffs being pulled from the show...
REGISTRATION PACKETS are notorious for containing a large number of papers which usually go from envelope to hand to wastebasket. Aside from the dreaded but necessary study card, assorted Harvard bureaucratic fluff is foisted semi-annually upon the unwitting registrant. But last Wednesday a slightly more interesting sheet emerged from the crowd...
...more than 100,000. Whether or not those papers lost readers in the process seems beside the point. Observers can comment on a perceived decline in the quality of taste and interests among Americans, but the fact remains that 335,000 Bostonians apparently would rather see space devoted to fluff than, say, an extra news analysis on educational reform...
...Nesson didn't let anyone get away with fluff," adds second-year student Stuart Rabner. "He did a very good job of explaining the law to laymen." Rabner also enjoys "Miller's Court," though he adds, "I saw it with some of Miller's students, and they were amazed at how easily he handled several people." Another second year student thinks Miller's program "lets people know what to expect in a trial situation, and that's a valuable service...