Word: raven
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...that as we followed the highways through the land, the great birds followed the rivers, the edges of forests, and the contours of mountains with great shadowing rocks. That much was clear and appropriate and irony avoided until once, coming down a mountain on a dirt road, saw a raven flying its own distance down with a small stream. When the water passed under the road, however, the bird faltered the air, and for that fraction of time made a tragic decision-one flap of the wings that shadowed across the car, a short glide to curve with the road...
Among Tuttle's clientele−and the patrons of such tattooists as Los Angeles' Jim Malonson and Chicago's Cliff Raven−the most popular new designs are peace symbols, astrological signs, doves, black panthers, Hindu gods and excerpts from the hip lexicon ("right on," "trip" and "head" are among the current favorites). Tuttle's prices vary with complexity. A simple wristlet goes for $20, while a Hindu god or a black panther can cost in excess...
...named Pidistra, an aardvark called A-million-miles-for-one-of-your-smiles. Also, reversing the order, a rat named Frank Lloyd, a collie named Melon, a pair of egrets called Miss Otis. Any more of that from the Caen guru, and his readers will all be like a raven named Stark...
...Kipling, Conrad, Stevenson. "Time flows differently for the blind," he admits. "It flows easier. I am not bored when I am alone. Circumstances are easily forgotten. A sleepless night is made up only of time, not thinking. I know two twilights: the twilight of the dove [morning] and the raven [evening]. One is blindness, the other...
...limited opportunities of the vice-presidency, Agnew, at 51, has displayed small capacity for development. Ten years ago, he was president of the P.T.A. in Loch Raven village near Baltimore. Five years ago, he was the Baltimore county executive, presiding over a horseshoe-shaped suburban community that knew little of the urban agonies on which he is now supposedly an Administration expert. Today, as Vice President, he retains his earlier prejudices...