Word: ostrichized
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Plucking the Ostrich...
Rhino Desk, Ostrich Bar. With fads turning on and fading out with the dizzy psychedelic speed of a discotheque slide projector, the old, posed Bachrach studio shot may be becoming passe. A Columbia University philosophy major, 24-year-old Julie Motz, has set herself up in business making 20-minute-long, 16-mm. BioPix. For $500, she will follow her subject (a Texas brewery president, say, or a New Jersey American Legionnaire), shooting candidly and in color from dawn to dusk. So far she has been banned only from Manhattan's "21" Club ("It bothered the other customers...
...floor-length skirt slit to the hip like a half-peeled banana. Crahay at Lanvin blossomed forth with frilly organdy bloomers under flaring, tentlike little-girl dresses, and Castillo even tried an evening tunic with sheer pantaloons. Carrying exposure further, Paco Rabanne whipped up see-through dresses made of ostrich feathers and transparent plastic disks...
...whisked her onto the floor for a fox trot-the first time he has danced in public since his celebrated solo with Imelda Marcos at the Manila Conference. As the rest of the revelers stood aside to watch, L.B.J. smiled gamely, his face all but obscured by the red ostrich-feather hat that covered his Dolly's tangerine-colored...
...verify that the behavior of the two Egyptian vultures was no fluke, the Van Lawicks set out two ostrich eggs at a site some 60 miles away and sat back to see who would cast the first stone. Sure enough, the eggs were promptly attacked by two mature, stone-hurling Egyptian vultures, which aimed wildly, often pausing to threaten each other. After the pair finally had cracked and eaten the eggs, an Egyptian vulture that was lower in the social pecking order approached one of the empty shells and peppered it with 30 rocks, perhaps practicing for the day when...