Word: pewter
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...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 or sing the mournful minor of the white-throated sparrow...
...bright blue with traces of gold around the collar and that Christ's garment turned out to be flame red, a symbol of His sacrifice. [Before the cleaning job, it was a dirty lime.] In the landscape some bright blue water came to light [and] now the glossy pewter utensils reflect the most subtle gradations of color in the robes of the apostles, the roseate or deep red brilliance of the wines shines transparently in the glasses. [All this] must have struck Leonardo's contemporaries as a marvel of naturalism. Even now, after a century of Impressionism...
...Distinguished Service Medal, Britain's Order of Merit and dozens of other U.S. and foreign decorations) to the commonplace (goldplated Jackie Gleason recordings, a silver-plated horseshoe that once belonged to Citation). The dazzling diamond, ruby and platinum Soviet Order of Victory contrasts sharply with a simple French pewter pitcher of sand from Normandy's beaches. Military items predominate, but scattered through the collection are some mementos of Ike's youth: the family Bible, in German; his father's gold watchfob and the shiny Rausch & Lang electric automobile that Ike's mother...
...Cleveland held its 35th arts and crafts exhibition, in the city's Museum of Art. There was something for every taste: 1,308 objects by 411 artists and craftsmen, from oils and watercolors to ceramic bowls, pewter boxes, jewelry, lithographs, displays of fabric printing, weaving, furniture. Museumgoers pounced on their favorite exhibits as fiercely as customers at Macy's, fought off rival buyers. Museum staffers estimated that by the time the show closes next week, 120,000 citizens will have visited it, and bought $30,000 worth...
...through the centuries, but the last of it is scraped away in Henry Fielding, by Frederick Homes Dudden, master of Oxford's Pembroke College, a biography which must now become the standard work on Fielding. As a biographer, Master Dudden is as dull and honest as an old pewter pot; but he brims nevertheless with the sloshing ale of Fielding's vitality, and time & again the rollicking old genius seems to seize the pot in his pudgy fist, slam the table, and roar out his irrepressible toast to life, and again life...