Word: gull
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...frail denizen of Toronto, covered with feathers. The weapon: a spheroid mass of hide, cork and yarn flung carelessly, at perhaps 70 m.p.h. So the charge sheet might have read last week on New York Yankee Centerfielder Dave Winfield after his arrest in Toronto for fatally beanballing a herring gull...
...ballplayer took place before 36,684 paying witnesses in Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, between halves of the fifth inning of a Yankee-Blue Jay game. Winfield had just finished his warmup tosses when he turned and whipped the ball to a ball boy. It hit the hapless gull, which had been idly perched on the turf. A ball boy came out, shrouded the corpse in a towel and tenderly removed it. For Winfield, who spent the rest of the game ducking balls and junk thrown by jeering fans, it marked the ignominious end to an evening of uneven achievements...
...absolute shower of gold. But absolute shower corrupts absolutely, and soon the islands are threatened by pride and avarice. Only the old man's wisdom can rescue them from themselves ... This familiar tale is saved from banality by the panoramic artwork of Jorg Muller and Jorg Steiner. Gull's-eye views of the islands seem three-dimensional, and the huge pictures of ancient machinery and people have a Shakespearean sweep. "He always worked a triple-hinged surprise/ To end the scene and make one rub his eyes." So wrote Poet Vachel Lindsay about the master of the trick...
...occupied alone, and at the thick windowpanes flanking the barred door. This was not the Ritz in London, one of his favorite jet-set stops, nor his art-rilled office high above Manhattan's Park Avenue. John Zachary De Lorean's dream of soaring to industrial fame on the gull-winged glitter of his stainless-steel sports car had turned into a nightmare...
Many other factors were involved in the car's demise, not the least of which was the DMC-12 itself. True enough, it was sleek and racy, with a stainless-steel skin, a corrosion-resistant, glass-reinforced plastic underbody, a 130-h.p. Renault engine and gull-wing swing-up doors borrowed from the 1954 Mercedes sport coupe. But, doors aside, car critics could find nothing distinctive or terribly special about it. One described it as "clunky." Still, the car had its fans...