Word: ostrich
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...leave some trace of his art on every passing manifestation of fashion." The tumbling, rosy cupids and tiny pastoral scenes with shepherds in knee breeches that are the cliches of rococo chinaware decoration were largely Boucher's doing. He painted on fans and carriage doors, snuffboxes, escritoires and ostrich eggs. And when Louis XV put Boucher in control of the state tapestry factories at Beauvais and Gobelin, he brought about the last flourish of grand-scale European weaving. No designer since Boucher has managed to raise tapestry to that pitch of worldly exuberance and erotic charm...
...still 9% per year. To slow it, Heath this month announced his Phase III-to a national chorus of "Let's-wait-and-see" doubts. Sometimes indeed it seems as if the whole country is suffering from what Author Arthur Koestler calls the "Struthonian Effect" -or the Ostrich Syndrome...
...Koestler derives Struthonian from struthio, Latin for ostrich...
...Nonetheless, it has long been called Lakha Manta (The Gateway to Hell) by the Indians, for reasons they are unable to explain. More tantalizing still, Michanowsky found that among some lowland tribes this humdrum part of the sky is known as the Region of the Chase of the Celestial Ostrich, a bird revered in Indian mythology. According to Indian lore, the ostrich was driven across the sky by two voracious dogs and finally killed in the constellation Vela. Michanowsky also learned of some possible connections between Indian star lore and the site of the annual orgy. In Indian dialects...
...well. Yet within the natural bounds of his style, especially up to the late '30s and his masterpiece Pinocchio, Disney repeatedly pulled sequences and single images that seem destined to survive as long as the history of cinema itself: the hilarious ballet of hippos, crocodiles and bemused ostrich in Fantasia, the terrifying image of little Jiminy Cricket perched on the eyeball of Monstro the Whale in Pinocchio, the sight of Dopey with diamonds screwed into his face like monocles, whirling his multiplied eyes within their facets. Such things are the real stuff, and any smart five-year...