Word: hummingbird
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...tell themselves that their money was safe. Archie's shuffling, flat-footed style seemed to be keeping him out of trouble. He even landed a couple of crisp rights. Maybe he was pacing himself. But Patterson kept crowding in. His fast hands, held high and dashing as a hummingbird, punished the old Moore flesh, and all of a sudden the countless battles Archie had fought, from Toronto to Tasmania, seemed to catch up with him. The starch leaked out of him. Carelessly, he dropped his guard. A lopping left hook whistled out of nowhere, to separate him from...
...five-verst shelf of books on Russia -hortatory, minatory or merely muddled, whether by Webb-footed economists, panting pilgrims, puffing pundits or Red-eyed viragoes-must surely comprise some of the most glum and gullible guff in the history of letters. A rare creature, exotic as a hummingbird in the tundras, has just been sighted in this dreary literary region. Truman Capote, previously noted for his ability in tatting webs of lacy sensibility, has written a wise and witty report on Russia...
...that doctors cannot touch. Only brujas can cure children of the evil-eye sickness (one way is to rub the child's forehead with an herb called tronadora). Doctors can do little for the pangs of unlucky love, but any bruja worth her fee knows that a dried hummingbird pinned inside a girl's dress will usually bring back a strayed lover...
Italian art these days is a three-ring circus. Painter Filippo de Pisis, 55, seems as out of place in it as a hummingbird in a cage of acrobatic bears. While his countrymen have been shooting off futuristic fireworks or ponderously balancing metaphysics and Marxism, he has darted and hovered, recording the surface of things, in glancing, wing-light strokes...
...remember that Lynn Belvedere touched off a social explosion at the end of "Sitting Pretty" with the publication of his novel "Hummingbird Hill." In the interim between the two movies, he lost a fortune in libel suits, but at the same time won a literary award of $10,000. Since the award stipulates that the recipient must hold a college degree, in "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" we find Mr. Belvedere doing just that--entering the ivied campus of Clemens U. as a gray-haired freshman...