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...modern "lust and bloodlust." And you even leave out most of the "love," to concentrate on your heroes-intrepid rabbits surviving against all obstacles. Richard Adams wrote that fantasy and called it Watership Down: it won both British awards for children's fiction in 1972, and then came to roost in the best seller lists for well over a year. Among other hyperbolic comments was this one in The St, Louis Post-Dispatch: "Anyone who can read English should read this book...
...called the first Kennedy assasination "chickens coming home to roost...
Distress Calls. All this argues for action, and the Army has indeed tried. When the birds first arrived in October, choosing a roost near Fort Campbell's barracks, soldiers played recorded starling distress calls and set off firecrackers. The blackbirds moved to the 30 acres of pines, where their comings and goings have since daily halted plane take-offs and landings. Hoping to move the birds again, the Army thinned the stand of trees, thus reducing the habitat. The birds merely perched closer together...
Ample Program. The I.C.P. is the child of ebullient, beetle-browed Photographer Cornell Capa. Housed in a rambling Georgian mansion on East 94th Street-it was once the Audubon Society's headquarters, and pigeons still roost in its unrenovated attics-it has an ample program: exhibitions, archive, study center, seminars, master classes, lectures. It is a culmination of years of effort by Capa to get museum exposure for such doyens of the document as Lewis Hine and Andre Kertesz, together with Capa's contemporaries and friends, some prematurely dead: David Seymour Dan Weiner, Werner Bischof, and Capa...
...these chickens come home to roost when a young black man called Garth (O.J. Simpson) witnesses a friend's murder at the hands of rabid Ku Kluxers and goes out for revenge. Stancill is finally forced to forsake his bleary detachment. At the climax the corpses sure pile...