Word: jaybird
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...funk, such as the Menezes Braganza Mansion. This rambling plantation house, partly dating from the 16th century, went into decline when India instituted land reform, so the family?resident for 14 generations? has opened it to the public. The 14th generation, named Abigail, aged two and naked as a jaybird, guided me by running ahead to open cabinets crammed with old silver, while dogs dozed on the ballroom floor...
Kate Winslet comes on as a dull yet impressionable girl seeking spiritual redemption in the ashram of a slightly suspect Indian maharishi. Before Holy Smoke! ends, she will be found wandering the Australian outback, naked as a jaybird and horny as a toad, seeking quite a different sort of redeeming experience...
From Goethe to Henry James, from Keats to Edgar Allan Poe, Canova haunted the imagination of writers, especially American ones. In fact the subject of Canova and America is large and includes such curiosities as a series of Canova sculptures of George Washington, naked as a jaybird, in the role of the classical pater patriae. Canova worked for politicians, princes, Popes and bankers, all of whom concurred that he was the modern Phidias. Now he is unloved, except by fans and specialists whose enthusiasm tends to be mistaken for some kind of fetishism. The mid-19th century shift to realism...
...great-great grandfather James McLean Bell, called by other settlers of Pikeville, Kentucky "Jaybird" because he was always jabbering about some wrongness the world had done to him, and some wrongness was always being done, it seemed, in that east Kentucky town, in 1840 no longer the frontier but still a place where a man could make a decent living making malt whiskey and selling it to the survivors of the Iroquois Five Nations, and nobody would care until the night when Jaybird Bell, liquored up on his own hootch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then he would...
...great-great grandfather James McLean Bell, called by the other settlers of Pikeville, Kentucky "Jaybird" because he was always jabbering about some wrongness the world had done to him, and some wrongness was always being done, it seemed, in that east Kentucky town, in 1840 no longer the frontier but still a place where a man could make a decent living making malt whiskey and selling it to the survivors of the Iroquois Five Nations, and nobody would care until the night when Jaybird Bell, liquored u on his own hooch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then...