Word: pigeon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporters. Countian reporters have been stonewalled and physically attacked by county officials, and once, when word got out that the next issue would captain names of all voters who had entered the voting booth in pairs, the Times ran a banner headline proclaiming "Homer Marcum Buys 16 Votes at Pigeon Roost...
...Bent overplays Hochepaix, greatly underestimating the audience's ability to understand far from subtle shades of meaning. It is enough to be told that Hochepaix waged a campaign against Ventroux in which he called Ventroux names such as "traitor," "rotten egg," "stool pigeon," and "decaying garbage." Bent's winking and gesturing to the audience whenever he says something sarcastic is a bit extraneous...
...glad to know that Linda Ronstadt is not pigeon-toed in real life [March 22], because she is one of the very few show biz types that I would love to bring home to Mom. Not only has she survived the rock-'n'-roll treadmill with amazing grace but she has remained completely human under the media's celebrity microscope. If she finds moviemaking not quite comfortable, she can rest assured that we will all settle for just her music...
Because of their freight of dismay, White's doomsday sketches are rarely as effective as, his verse. He greets spring in New York ("Pigeon, sing Cuccu!") and rags an author about a fatuous book on farming with a review writ ten in rhymed couplets. Using mock heroic stanzas and plenty of relish he relates how a Chesapeake Bay snowstorm turned back a submarine specially equipped for polar exploration, captained by an explorer who had sold his story to a publisher before even setting out. An almost perfect example of occasional verse is "I Paint What I See." It pits...
...includes onetime Member Pablo Picasso's sketch of the dove that became the familiar peace emblem. "Picasso said he didn't have enough time to think up a symbol," Langignon recalls. Suddenly French Communist Writer Louis Aragon reached into Picasso's cluttered folder, picked up a lithograph of a pigeon, and said, "Why don't you use this?" Langignon...