Word: fowle
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...movies. The sound of Horowitz's Steinway is never heard at night. He practices ("I prefer to call it rehearsing") regularly every afternoon for an hour and a half, often with the Horowitz zoo-one poodle and four cats-in attendance. His regimen includes a strict diet offish, fowl and vegetables, and it shows: at 5 ft. 9% in., he is rarely more than a pound or two from his preferred weight...
...class last year; then, when his old friend Mme. Chiang (no kin to Mme. Chiang Kaishek) fell ill, he stepped in as instructor. Danny still makes the weekly trip from his Beverly Hills home, reverting to his favorite role-that of enfant terrible. Halfway through surgery on a fowl, he was asked, "How old is that chicken?" Replied Kaye instantly: "He was born Jan. 16, 1971, and has lived happily ever after with three brothers and one sister on a ranch in California...
...northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border provided extra earnings to the underpaid local soldiers (less than $30 a month for privates). They collected bribes whenever a merchant carrying such items as gasoline and medicine headed into the Communist zone, and again when he returned bringing back fruit or fowl...
...Spanish christened it Isla de los Alcatraces, Isle of Pelicans. But to generations of moviegoers and newspaper readers, the island in San Francisco Bay has been better known as the Rock, the ultimate roost for a tougher kind of fowl -the jailbird. Alcatraz was decommissioned as a prison in 1970 and is now part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area. Since it was opened to the public by the National Park Service last October, the U.S. equivalent of Devil's Island has become San Francisco's biggest tourist attraction...
...bourguinon. Kidneys bordelaise. Crayfish a la Mozart. Each dish has an identity of its own, but the diners ignore all subtlety in order to concentrate more conscientiously on their suicidal quest. Marcello Mastroianni stuffs down six clams in one bite. Grubby fingers and grubby mouths attack roasted legs of fowl so greedily they would make Henry VIII blush...