Word: ostrichism
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...started out wearing gaudily studded and mirrored jumpsuits, soon graduated to feather boas, fur shoulderettes, a top hat surprounted by a magnificent ostrich plume by now these too have become routine costumes...
Taffeta Phantom. They are out of the familiar Rauschenberg image bank again, part random and part (one suspects) autobiographical: newspaper fragments, comic cutouts, a Cessna, a balloon, an octopus, buckets, a hand gripping a squeegee, an ostrich...
South Africa's heads-up policy to ward the changing realities of the continent stands in marked contrast to Rhodesia's ostrich-like pose. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs observed last week: "There is little concern about the ominous signs. As the odds mount against them, Rhodesians are eagerly participating in a contest to compose lyr ics for their newly adopted national an them. The tune, replacing God Save the Queen, is the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
Sheathed in a shimmering blue jumpsuit topped by a towering headdress of ostrich feathers, Josephine Baker, grande dame of the music-hall circuit, pranced across the stage of the London Palladium last week with grace belying her 68 years. Between torch ballads, the St. Louis expatriate paused long enough to reminisce about the good old times in Paris. "I started in 1924, and we were all beginners together-Pablo, Matisse, Hemingway," she recalled to her audience. "I used to look after them all, too, picking up their clothes, getting them organized. And I was always popular because I was earning...
Although widely accused of an ostrich-like refusal to admit that anything is wrong and "plain incompetence right down the line" (as one principal puts it), the administrators are protected from dismissal by tenure agreements or ironclad contracts. How to get rid of inept administrators is one of his greatest problems, says Board President Hopp. "They are impossible to move," he explains. "You have to catch them committing rape on the steps of city hall...