Word: nests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once in the crown colony, they dodged through fields and thickets, trying to avoid being spotted by R.A.F. helicopters cruising low over Robins Nest Mountain and the scrub pines of Flower Hill. Most were routed from their hiding places by skirmish lines of British troops, and sent to Fanling camp. There, after a nourishing meal, the luckless refugees were herded onto trains or trucks for the short ride back to Red China. Along the way, fellow Chinese tossed food packages into the refugees' outstretched hands. Most of them saved some of the food against the day when they would...
Today, as he has been for many years, Braque is fascinated by birds. He has never said exactly what the bird means, but no creature better represents movement and freedom in space. In The Bird and Its Nest, the space is black with mystery, like infinity itself. The viewer's eye is caught up by the deceptively simple forms only to find itself staring into an endless beyond, as it once was made to clamber over Braque's intricate geometric planes. Whether he intended to or not. Braque has restored to the bird its ancient role as messenger...
...Oscar-winning (for Casablanca) Hollywood director, a leathery Hungarian import who, in a 35-year career spent largely with Warner Bros., directed 80-odd films ranging from blood and thunder (The Charge of the Light Brigade) to canned Americana (White Christmas), was famed for his malapropisms ("Make a love nest") and his gall (he cut the sermon to the birds out of Francis of Assist as "too corny"), but stubbornly insisted "I put all the art into my pictures I think the audience can stand"; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...held on active duty the fact that Kennedy's plans to cut down on unemployment have failed?" and "Are you conscientiously representing the people who elected you to office, or are you merely appeasing all the 'too liberal' party majority in order to feather your own nest?" Finally, the 49th's General West had had enough. "Each meeting they had was a little bolder," he recalls. "I finally came to the conclusion that it was going beyond a free discussion. So I handed down an order banning any further meetings." Speaking of Rights. That order...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey. From the vantage point of a mental institution, an angry, anguished attack on the middlebrow establishment is made by the mentally ill hero of this fine first novel...