Word: hummingbirds
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...Hearst emptied Spanish monasteries. One section of the museum, called "Creation's Journey," displays such Heye treasures as the famous, blood-red Crow shield, featuring a haunting human figure incorporating the actual body of a stork, which figured prominently in a Crow triumph over the Cheyenne; a gemlike Pomo hummingbird-feather basket; and an exquisite ceremonial mask from the 19th century Pacific Northwest...
...despairs of him. His goal seems to have been to cause the viewer headache instead of render a harmonious picture of 19th-century society, for the camera darts about in a peripatetic ad nauseum of rapid-fire montage as if it were affixed to the neck of a hummingbird. Again and again, its strategy is to alight on one item after another--a glove, a calling card, a painting, a bauble--until it seems that Martin is just showing off his assemblage of period pieces. What's more, color is splashed onto the screen willy-nilly and fade...
Darias' most important contact was Marlene Navarro, a petite, ripe-breasted beauty in her 30s who was known to friends as "the hummingbird." Navarro was a Colombian who had studied at the Sorbonne and converted to Judaism while living in Israel; she could seduce men in five languages. She was also the chief U.S. agent for Carlos Jader Alvarez, one of the godfathers of her country's drug trade. With careful stroking, Darias had persuaded Navarro to let his firm launder more than $1 million of Alvarez's cocaine profits when Operation Swordfish was abruptly halted, partly because a corrupt...
During an uproarious party that Golightly throws, a man leans in to Varjak in overt chumminess. "Is she or isn't she?" he asks, confidentially, somewhat puzzling Varjak. As Golightly, eyebrows perfectly arched, cigarette holder pursed between her lips, flits among her guests like an exquisite hummingbird, there can be no doubt...
...MIGHT HEAR HER FIRST ON THE radio, as you're spinning along in a car perhaps. The composer might well be Rossini, and it won't be long before some hummingbird scales and trills fly by. The song continues and bursts into fantastic runs up and down the octaves. Wait a minute, you say, as it becomes clear that this is not just another exercise in bloodless bel canto. The voice you are hearing is fresh and juicy. This singer can make the trills tease, the roulades flirt. She tosses off cruelly difficult music as naturally as if she were...