Word: owl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier that evening, at his Carnegie Hall concert, he displayed the style that in a few years has made him stand out in a crowded field. He hunched owl-like over the keyboard, played with his fingers close to the keys, his only visible flourishes an occasional phrase-smoothing gesture...
...creates for herself an underworld dream life. She also follows murder cases avidly, recently dragged brother Osbert to the scene of the grisly Christie murders and kept him there for hours. The critics now pay her court, but she is still bitter about them. Once she sent a stuffed owl to a critic she thought was too stuffy...
...glance, then checking their estimate by careful count.) Artificial aids to attract birds and flush them from the underbrush are legitimate. Many birders make a succession of noises such as "Pshhh, pshhh, pshhh; psi, psi, psi; tsk, tsk, tsk." Birding virtuosos learn to give lifelike imitations of the screech owl's eerie, fluty tremolo. Others carry the Audubon Bird Call-a tiny birchwood tube in which they rotate a pewter plunger: it squeaks like crazy. Latest gadget is a 98? plastic "bird" with a trombone slide that can be made to chirp and whistle arpeggios like an amorous cardinal...
...hundred and fifty men and women who met Byron and wrote about him enter the witness box to testify to his character-and leave the judge owl-eyed and the jury hung. The outlines of the story will be familiar to readers of Byron biographies, but not most of the details, which have been culled from widely scattered sources-diaries, letters, magazines, rare 19th century books...
...Ernest Hemingway, when he is writing, every day begins in that private world. As early as 5:30 in the morning, before any but some gabby bantams, a few insomniac cats and a cantankerous bird called "The Bitchy Owl" are awake, he goes to work in the big main bedroom of his villa. He writes standing up at the mantelpiece, using pencil for narrative and description, a typewriter for dialogue "in order to keep...