Word: herons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little blue heron swallowed the moon," says Hosie's Aviary (Viking...
...Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson & The Midnight Band--The Paradise...
...Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson & The Midnight Band--The Paradise...
...first thing one hears is the cry of birds. A solitary figure shuffles in like a molting heron wearing steel-rimmed spectacles. He is Norman Thayer Jr. (Tom Aldredge), hater of the New York Yankees, high dental fees and, most of all, the thought of turning 80. For 48 years, Norman and his wife Ethel (Frances Sternhagen) have summered at their Maine cottage on Golden Pond...
...Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The book belongs in that company. Like Blake seeing a world in a grain of sand, Professor Janovy discerns universes in the creeks, bogs and fields of the Sandhills country. He makes the reader care for creatures as large as the great blue heron, as small as the inch-long plains killifish, and as obscure as the parasites of the genus Trich-odina that live in the minnow's gills. "Early on," writes Janovy, "the killifish was shown to be not a fish but a community, and the community itself encompasses both the artist...