Word: ostrichized
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While bearded priests intoned prayers and blessings over blaring loudspeakers, pilgrims dressed in lionskins paraded around the gold-domed shrine, chanting, wailing, beating drums, and imploring the archangel to answer their prayers in return for offerings of jewelry, cash, painted ostrich eggs, rattails and leopard cubs. Disfigured beggars called upon Gabriel for the miracle of a cure. Vendors selling gum, candy, candles, post cards and pictures of movie stars shoved their way through the multitude. Barren women kissed the church's stones, praying the messenger of good tidings to grant them a child. On hand, in case immediate help...
Traveling in Tanzania on a National Geographic Society photographic expedition, Zoologist Jane Goodall and her photographer husband Hugo van Lawick came upon an abandoned ostrich nest. Two ostrich eggs left in the nest were under attack by a variety of vultures, which were trying vainly to peck through the tough shells. While the Van Lawicks watched and photographed, they reported last week in Nature, two Egyptian vultures took a novel approach to their problem...
...Bomb," an abstracted menace, to be sure, is close as Flanders & Swann come to confronting the sixties; it is not terribly unlike "The Ostrich," in a fable from their own bestiary, who cools his head in the sand while the world goes to the devil. This is not to imply that we world goes to the devil. This is not to imply that we would have them sing to us of Vietnam or MLF or race riots. They are too droll, melodious, and genteel to be militant -- or even engage -- and evenings with them will always have that reassuring quality...
...trustees of the Chicago Historical Society turned down Fan Dancer Sally Rand 23 years ago when she offered the famous ostrich plumes she had used at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair. Now, at 62, Sally is still fanning through the nightclub act that nearly turned the fair into a second Chicago fire, and evidently the trustees have grown nostalgic. They invited "Her Sexellency," as she is sometimes billed in the clubs, to donate the big 7-lb. fans to the society museum as "symbols of an era," and Sally saucily agreed. "Helps them keep abreast...
...Gold & Ostriches. South Africa is a land of bright sun and haunting beauty. Fine wine grapes grow in the protected valleys in the southwest, while elephant, rhino and springbok range the high savanna of Kruger National Park in the northeast. Ostrich farms dot the harsh, baked landscape beneath the kopjes (flat-topped hills) of the Great Karroo, where two centuries ago Dutch trekboers lived in small nomadic communi ties. South of the Kalahari Desert is the high veld, a great, green, grassy plateau where cattle and sheep graze in endless herds. On the Indian Ocean's shore...