Word: roost
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...would be a good father if only kindness mattered. He brings his boy up in his own image, however, more than he knows. The harrowing conclusion of the movie is a bloody, scary sequence in which, as the local idiom goes, all the chickens come home to roost. The sheriffs wife is slaughtered by a couple of frightened sneak thieves, and father and son go out for revenge...
...Spanish christened it Isla de los Alcatraces, Isle of Pelicans. But to generations of moviegoers and newspaper readers, the island in San Francisco Bay has been better known as the Rock, the ultimate roost for a tougher kind of fowl -the jailbird. Alcatraz was decommissioned as a prison in 1970 and is now part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area. Since it was opened to the public by the National Park Service last October, the U.S. equivalent of Devil's Island has become San Francisco's biggest tourist attraction...
...Rosovsky officially in power, the papers have been shuffling in University Hall. By delegating authority right, left and center, Rosovsky is attempting to unite the Faculty not with a diplomatic strong-arm (a la Dunlop) but with a strong-arm of diplomacy. Whereas Dunlop worked from his University Hall roost to exert his power on administrators and professors, his successor is distributing his power among the Administration and the Faculty, in an effort to bring them together. Although this style of authority would seem likely to decrease his power, Rosovsky's influence has in fact grown...
President Bok's announcement last week that George Putnam '49 will replace Bennett as treasurer brings to an end the involvement of the last vociferous holdover from the early years of the Pusey Administration--the years when principled conservatism ruled Harvard's roost--in deciding what Harvard's responsibilities as a shareholder entail...
...chateau itself, looming against the skies of Languedoc, looks like the scene of a Gothic melodrama. Turkeys roost on the veranda, and assorted dogs and cats prowl the courtyard where lilacs bloom. In an unburied coffin lies the late Baron Léonce de Portal, whose family title dates back seven centuries. The new baron, Jean-Louis de Portal, has been holding off the police at rifle point for more than six weeks...