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...consider lanky, 6-ft. 4-in. Graham, 46, and petite, vivacious Medlock, 55, who flirt with financial disaster to keep their project going in order to spread the word about good deeds in an unkind world. The object, says Medlock, is to inspire everyone "to stop being an ostrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: Sticking Your Neck Out | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

...Bork's confirmation all but sunk, former Justice Lewis Powell's empty seat may stay empty for months. In some controversial cases, the eight Justices will be delicately balanced between left and right; with two wings of equal size, the court may wind up as a kind of judicial ostrich -- lots of flap but not much flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Eight Enough? | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Here she comes at 5 in the morning, following the delivery trucks along Queens Boulevard, her hips rotating, arms pumping and legs jerking straight out in front, looking for all the world like a drunken ostrich on parade. Marian Spatz, a high school administrative secretary from the New York City borough of Queens, is totally unfazed by curious stares, for this is her daily exercise regimen. Not for her the heel-pounding, back-jarring effort of jogging. Instead, she, like many other American fitness enthusiasts, has taken up aerobic walking. If you think mere walking will not keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: How To Get Slim Hips and Catcalls | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

Their song complete, the soldiers march off to the front, dressed in beige uniforms and Italian bush hats, with ostrich plumes sticking from the muzzles of their rifles to keep out the swirling dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan War Is Better Than a Bad Peace | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

REMEMBER JACK COLTON and Joan Wilder? The sizzling duo who burned up the silver screen as they fumbled their way through South American jungles in search of an everelusive ostrich-sized emerald...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Boogie Down the Nile | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

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