Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founded Suntory (the very name means "three birds"). In 75 years the company has expanded its output from one dessert wine to 118 products; it now holds more than 70% of the whisky market in Japan, which is second in size only to the U.S. market. With his own nest well feathered, Saji is able to turn to nonbusiness efforts. He sponsors two existing bird sanctuaries, plus another being established around one of his distilleries outside Kyoto. His company has flooded Japan with bird-bedecked shopping bags, posters and postcards; even the cans in which the company's beer...
...people often come in and say, what'll I tell my kids. You know, they look at government. It's sort of a rugged life and they see the mistakes that are made. They get the impression that everybody is here for the purpose of feathering his nest. That's why I made this earlier point. Not in this Administration. Not one single man or woman...
...Napoleon, to Bernardo Bertolucci about being the Continental Op in a film of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Milos Forman is waiting for him to finish Fortune, so he can start playing McMurphy in an adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At no time since the burnished '30s has Hollywood been so big-name conscious. "The system is geared toward overworking the stars," Nicholson points out. "There aren't that many stars around to haul the freight...
...live in the wilds of Africa. His part demands several dangerous encounters, including a puffadder handling exhibition. So far he has demonstrated his cool by dangling at the end of a rope over the face of a sheer, 250-ft. cliff to inspect a vulture's nest. Then, wearing a bracelet of elephant's hair to deter a tusker's charge, he stepped out to meet the warriors in a Masai village. Recognizing Bobby right away as a brother, the ocher-smeared men shared a gourd of ox blood and milk with him. But he may have...
...least he wasn't alone. He knew that. Others had realized it long ago; Kesey in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Pynchon in "V," Heller in "Catch-22." He had friends, people who took his side. He felt a common bond, even with the people he had never met. They, too, understood...