Word: ostrichism
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...chauffeur-chasing American heiress who keeps a sports-car engine in her bedroom, a collection of slinky bizarrities in her closet. To go auto racing with Chauffeur Glenn Ford, she slips into a pink bareback space suit; for alfresco breakfasting, Hope is a thing with feathers -blue ostrich plumes on a polka-dot peignoir. She has awful manners: she stirs her champagne with Ford's toothbrush-and licks it. But she shapes up when she lures him to an erotic booby trap of an island hideaway, with dozens of marble nymphs and satyrs and only...
...CHIEF OF PROTOCOL, welcoming Somali's Prime Minister Abdirascid Ali Scermarche, who arrived on a visit and brought a few unusual gifts-an ostrich-egg lamp, a foot-high, bottom-weighted "Devil Doll'' that teeters but never falls over, a monkey-fur rug, and a brass gong mounted between two elephant tusks...
...press and by its leading groups and figures. In contrast, the "voices of reason and moderation" were rarely heard in New Orleans because the city's papers failed to "provide a forum for liberal voices." New Orleans' business and civic leaders, as well as the local papers, all "played ostrich and hoped that the problem would go away," said Galphin...
...performed by four Oxford-and Cambridge-educated Britons in their 20s, a quartet of high-IQ imps. Physically and intellectually these scholar-clowns could stock an eclectic aviary. Alan Bennett, a blond horn-rimmed owl, lectures on medieval history at Oxford. Jonathan Miller, who looks like an elongated ostrich and seems to be acrobattling his way through an imaginary soccer game, is a neuropathologist. Peter Cook, an unblinkingly phlegmatic penguin in tweeds, is a writer and editor. And Dudley Moore, who nestles like a pouter pigeon at the piano, is a musicologist, equally adept at organ and harpsichord...
Tribesmen clad in leopard skins and ostrich plumes danced to the sound of rawhide drums and blaring trumpets of antelope horn. From a thousand hilltops bonfires burst into flame. In the capital city of Kampala strings of electric lights illumined the facades of churches, mosques and Hindu temples. Thus Uganda this week became the fifth African nation to gain its freedom in a year, and the 28th since 1956. Even informed observers are becoming dazed by the endless roll call of big and little new nations that sound more and more like commuter stops on a train to Timbuctoo: Gambia...