Word: robins
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...more exhaustive and, at least to new birders, more daunting. Sibley relies on his own often exquisite paintings to illustrate his book, but he is of course aware that individual drawings can misrepresent their subjects. So he offers multiple images of each species. His page on the American robin, for example, presents four drawings of the bird in flight, two as seen from above and two as seen from below. Accompanying these are drawings of a juvenile robin, a regular adult, a "pale adult" and a slightly different form of the bird seen in eastern Canada. Another drawing portrays...
...film is very well played. Willis is good as a depressed man resisting instinctive, inchoate hints that he is not living up to his uncanny potential. And Jackson's ability to play perverse intelligence gets its best outing since Pulp Fiction. Robin Wright Penn is superb as the wife almost defeated by Dunn's inarticulate withdrawals, and young Spencer Treat Clark's hopeful patience with his troubled dad is fine...
...Robin Baitz...
...cook, or c) vote for the Republican candidate for president. Not too tough to choose mowing the lawn, right? Now imagine she says instead, "Youre going to live with apartheid, and you're going to like it." This is the situation seventeen year old Gil Burgess faces in Jon Robin Baitz's A Fair Country. His father Harry Burgess is an American diplomat stuck permanently in a backwater of 1977 South Africa, and wife and son begin to get a little too comfortable with beating up and calling the police on their black servants...
...Everybody here is absolutely thrilled, and we think we can make a difference in this disease on the most populous nation on the continent," said Robin Herman, director of communications for HSPH...