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...pair of spotted owls assert themselves, as if to prove they are more than a mere abstraction. Nesting in the cavity of a broken-topped fir, they scan for prey and ponder the rare two-legged observer far below. Their gentle mewing ! gives way to a distinctive four-note hoot: "who-who, who-who." The male drops down for a closer look and settles on a limb 15 ft. from BLM biologist Oliver. "They have no fear of man," he says. In his hand, Oliver hides a mouse. The moment he exposes it, dangling it by its tail, the mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Owl vs Man | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...Naipaul gives three cheers for the legacy of Western civilization, but not a hoot for the romanticizers of the Third World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134 No. 2 JULY 10, 1989 | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...Give a hoot, Harry. "Yes," he yelled...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crowds, Crew, Cookouts and Victory | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...Gary Cooper clutches a gun and Madeleine Carroll clutches him in an ad for The General Died at Dawn (1936); William Powell and Hedy Lamarr gaze out from Crossroads (1942), "where women," promises the caption, "wait to seal your fate!" Even without popcorn, Reel Art is a real hoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Holiday Hamper Of Glowing Gift Titles | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...Pensive Winos seems an appropriate name, considering how they hoot and holler in the background of some cuts like the world's oldest frat band. Though they sound deceptively loose, they were tight enough to record many of Talk's songs in a single take. The result is the spontaneous, raw sound that marks the Stones' best work, a sound one has come not to expect from their recent albums or solo projects...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Keith Richards Breaks the Silence | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

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