Word: myna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stone and I.B. Singer, Georges Simenon and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Perhaps he is most comfortable with writers like S.J. Perelman (the subject of three separate interviews) and Brigid Brophy, who share his penchant for groan-inducing puns and shameless plays on words. Parelman, Shenker tells us, has a myna bird, "scion of an ancient mynasty,...and wherever Perelman goes the bird is sure to go; it followed him to shul one day." (The bird, incidentally, is christened "Nixon's Vulture...
...restrictions, especially from government." Unless the mayor rescinds the ban. the feud will probably be resolved in the courts this spring. In the meantime, the newspaper and the mayor continue, as State Senator David McClung puts it, "to peck away at each other like a pair of outraged myna birds. Neither is doing the job that should or could be done for our people." All the same, the mayor's popularity appears to be rebounding. A telephone poll by local TV station KGMB indicated that only 1 out of 4 citizens approved of Fasi's actions in October...