Word: fowle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fascinating character: a woman (Debra Monk), now running her late husband's poultry business, whose rage is so pure and carnal that it alone keeps her alive and kicking. Along comes a plot twist that was hoary when Shakespeare used it, and Mastrosimone ends up with a fowl play...
Booked and released after posting a $500 bond, Winfield was suitably remorseful. "It is quite unfortunate," he said, "that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us." Nor is the case. After thinking it over, Toronto police dropped the charge...
Even more bizarre was Watt's assertion in a recent Business Week interview that the American environmentalist movement is a totalitarian front. In Watt's view, environmentalists only pretend to care about fish, fowl, and forests. Their more sinister real purpose is to bring "central planning" to the American economy and to "subordinate the dignity of man." It's night-malish vision to be sure--just imagine Woodsy the Owl in jackboots with a club--but a little improbable...
During the second intermission, the fish and fowl finally appeared, and the roaring was a great as for a goal. A number of fans were appalled the chicken tied to the Crimson goal was dead' "I've been to these games a long time," sighed the official timekeeper, Mike McHugh (Cornell 50)," and they've always had live ones...
...wings at the approach of President Reagan. This year's 50-lb. gobbler had been exposed to human contact for a couple of months to avoid a repeat performance, although in the Rose Garden one observer noted that the turkey "looked like he was on 'hides." (The fowl, which will be used for breeding, was not on tranquilizers, insisted N.T.F. representatives.) The President recalled another bird from a Thanksgiving past. Then Governor of California, Reagan had been carving the turkey, he said, when he became alarmed at the sight of blood. Subsequently, he discovered "that...