Word: ostrichized
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...this decorates, like so many ostrich feathers, Gerard Soeteman's perverse script of a homosexual who grudgingly accepts a wealthy woman's favors in the hope that she will introduce him to her other lover, a lovely, coarse lad who seems to offer the possibility of degradation along with the joy of sex. The question is, will one or the other of them meet with murder (or just incredibly bad luck) after conjoining with her? The answer is, who cares?, especially as she is played with a placid lack of threat by Renée Sontendijk...
...many outsiders, a more suitable bird would be the ostrich. Ciskei (pop. 2 million), carved out of unwanted land on South Africa's southeastern coast, is the most ambitious of the four resettlement areas that South Africa has created as "national states" and used as a dumping ground for 6 million blacks. Like the others (Bophuthatswana, Transkei and Venda), Ciskei is recognized as a state only by South Africa. The rest of the world regards it as just another offshoot of South Africa's 25-year-old policy of whittling away its non-white majority...
...Three hens are driven by that ageless query: Which is the most beautiful? The king makes a Solomonic decision: whoever produces the most wonderful egg will be made a princess. One hen immediately lays a perfectly shaped egg; another creates an egg so large that it would make an ostrich jealous; the third gets up from her nest to reveal an egg in shape and shades not unlike Rubik's Cube. In the end, the king awards all three contestants a crown, proving the royal dictum: "What you can do is more important than what you look like," wisdom...
...ostrich disappeared from history, but the owner, the renowned yachtsman and orator Ted Turner, stayed in view. In a gallant gesture, intended to divert the attention of paying customers from the inept foolery of his athletes, he challenged Tug McGraw of the Philadelphia Phillies to a match race in which each of them would push a baseball around the bases with his nose. Turner won, though he lost a good deal of skin from his face when he skidded in the dirt...
...like everybody else?" Turner's answer ("Because I'm in last place") was to the point, although not exactly an airtight defense. At that very moment three other owners were last in their divisions, and only Turner was trying to escape on the back of an ostrich. Since that ignominious year, the Braves have risen to first in the National League's Western Division, and Turner no longer threatens to manage. But in a way that tends to astonish all of the people some of the time, and infuriate some of the people all of the time...