Word: macaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Newsman John Chancellor is usually in the public eye with his co-anchor David Brinkley, but he gamely agreed to wing it with a macaw named Bob. The occasion was a fund-raising luncheon for the New York Zoological Society, which is dedicated to protecting endangered species and displaying animals in natural environments. Chancellor, a devotee of wildlife preservation, had no trouble with the boa constrictor and the tarantula that came to lunch. The macaw, however, was for the birds. "Neither one of us expected to have our picture taken together," said Chancellor. "He bit me, just to show...
...with 17 ewes and one ram, their backs smeared with blue by the artist, Menashe Kadishman, a former kibbutz shepherd. The azure blots, "drifting apart or coming together according to the sheeps' movement," make up a painting, so the catalogue declared. One conceptual artist, Jannis Kounellis, exhibited a macaw on a perch-an old work, possibly touched up with a new macaw. Another, Vettor Pisani, had a rhesus monkey tied on a short leather strap to the top of a sinister-looking mirror table...
...fourth part of the earth." For centuries, fabled islands populated by demigods, monsters or Arcadians had been part of the imagery of European legend, and the discovery of the South American Indian-lolling in a hammock, innocent of toil and tyranny, naked except for a bright girdle of macaw feathers, as imagined by Stradanus in 1589-seemed to confirm...
...fantastical flora and fauna of the New World provoked equal curiosity among artists and their patrons. No European before Columbus had ever seen a red macaw (though Raphael shortly afterward included some...
...jungle. Ostensibly, they came to trade for food and medicine with Gilberto Pinto Figueiredo, an official of FUNAI, the government-run National Indian Foundation, but they were clearly angry about the building of new roads through their tribal lands. They came equipped with bows and arrows decorated with red macaw feathers, a symbol of war. Even after a supply of food and gifts arrived by plane, they remained dissatisfied and agitated. Early next morning, a fierce war cry brought Figueiredo rushing out of camp. As he approached Comprido, the Indian leader, he was fatally struck in the chest...