Word: ostrichized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office is seeking the death penalty, and Davis has hired a team of nine lawyers, supplemented by twelve investigators and secretaries, to represent him. Foremost among them is Richard ("Racehorse") Haynes, a flamboyant character fond of hand-tooled ostrich-hide boots and aggressive tactics of crossexamination. "My wealth has worked against me," Davis laments, ruefully noting his lawyers' failure to get him released on bail over the past 14 months, but he has managed to carry on his business from a phone in the judge's chambers and to dine with cronies in a vacant jury room...
...brontosaur, for example, weighed around 30 tons); a dinosaur whose body temperature dropped just one degree below the warmth necessary for it to be active would have to bask in the sun for at least several hours to bring it back to normal. Thus, says Desmond, Strithiom-imus, the "ostrich dinosaur," could not have hit the 50 m.p.h. speeds it was said to have attained if it had a physiology comparable with that of a modern-day lizard. The Tyrannosaurus could not have engaged in its earth-shaking battles with the rhinocerine Triceratops unless it had the high metabolic rate...
...Sesame Street as a benevolent baby sitter, but Viewer Edward Hoagland, 43, has noticed something more. Animals, he suggests, are now an endangered species in the realm of make-believe. The Muppets are perky humanoids or cuddly monsters; Big Bird is barely the simulacrum of an ostrich. For that matter, Hoagland notes, Bugs Bunny was less obviously a member of the genus Lepus than were such precursors as Peter and Br'er Rabbit...
None of her friends seem to have reciprocated Ottoline's intensity, to have gone beyond the outside decor of flowing gowns and ostrich feathers, past the insistent questioning to the woman beneath. W.J. Turner, a little-known Australian poet, came closest to the truth in his novel The Aesthetes, where he wrote of yet another caricature of Ottoline--that she was "not the physical construction we may shake hands with or photograph, nor the intellectual or conceptual construction Darthy may present to us as a psychological fiction, nor the intuition-image each one of us may have, nor the work...
Endangered Species. At Dior and most other houses this year, the fur flew freely. Bohan's coats have collars of red or silver fox; raincoats are lined and hooded in mink and moleskin; his anoraks are lined in seal or fox; sheer jackets are bordered in matching ostrich plumes. But if Bohan's clothes hurt the purse, they should not distress the conscience. Said a program footnote: "Christian Dior Fourrure hereby declares that none of the furs shown in the collection are on the endangered list of the World Wild Life Fund." Indeed, if their prices keep rising...