Word: pigeoning
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Each week about 1,500 readers provide quick and unflinching feedback to TIME through letters, faxes, phone calls, E-mails, online postings: everything but carrier pigeon. Such rapid response makes it easy to tell when the magazine has hit a nerve, as it certainly did recently with Charles Krauthammer's piece opposing same-sex marriages [ESSAY, July...
...first became interested in the world of mathematics. He pauses to reflect. Then he begins rocking back and forth in his chair like a bobbing pigeon. It is one of Kedlaya's tell-tale tics, as if the excess energy from his brain is powering the rest of his body...
Apparently, there was at first hope that the pigeons had been taken by some poor lad who desperately wanted to race pigeons but lacked the wherewithal to buy his own flock. Alfie was able to imagine the Trafalgar Square pigeons soaring gracefully over the Somerset moors or being pampered by a kindly pigeon fancier like that nice detective on NYPD Blue...
...heard on the radio that the pigeon-racing authorities dismissed that theory, explaining that Trafalgar Square pigeons are too old and out of shape to be competitive racers...
...think the Trafalgar Square caper indicates that smoked pigeon on radicchio has replaced bangers and mash in the hearts of the English. The pigeons could be served as anything. As Escoffier, or one of them, may have said, "Chopping up is the great leveler...