Word: shrike
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...descend on the U.S. for a few weeks and condescend forever after, White brought with him an open mind, sharp eyes and immense erudition. His journal, conscientiously pieced together between lecture engagements and airport departures, is largely a testament to the diversity of the U.S. Whether describing a loggerhead shrike in North Carolina or an egghead racist in New Orleans, wandering over Beverly Hills ("reminds you of the environs of Florence and Fiesole") or Washington, D.C. ("the chalk-white city half in love with Time"), White displayed even in this disjointed, unedited chronicle the wit and insight that made...
...planes are dropping Lazy Dogs, which explode in the air and spray the ground with small, razor-sharp projectiles; Cluster Bombs, loaded with hundreds of small bombs, explode after they have penetrated the jungle canopy, and Shrike and Bullpup air-to-ground guided missiles zero in on preselected targets. Ingeniously designed for low-flying missions is the Snakeye, a bomb that upon release opens an assembly of metal ribs like an umbrella's skeleton. The sudden increase of air resistance retards the falling bomb and thus permits the jet that drops it to escape the blast of detonation...
Most bizarre entry to date is Writer-Director Dore Schary's One by One, the love story of two paraplegics. All Honorable Men is a drama about Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Pulitzer Prizewinner Joseph Kramm (The Shrike), with George Grizzard as Hamilton. Edwin O'Connor has dramatized his new novel, I Was Dancing, about an ex-vaudeville hoofer...
...heels of Broderick Crawford in Hollywood's All the King's Men, winning an Oscar as the best supporting actress of 1949. She had been a radio soap-opera star (Big Sister, This Is Nora Drake). But Hollywood instantly claimed her as its new resident shrike, and she has lived out there over the past dozen years, making pictures like Johnny Guitar, Giant, A Farewell to Arms and Suddenly Last Summer. "Every day," she says, remembering Summer, "the makeup department would spend an hour making Elizabeth Taylor look more dazzling, and then another hour and a half making...
...sensual emotionalism, says it-"God!"-again and again "in humility and gratitude and ecstasy." George runs a traveling caravan that swizzles bourbon with its brimstone, and Salome, or Angel Baby, as they call her, hooks up. Brother George was long ago spliced to Mercedes McCambridge, a twisted, Bible-quoting shrike, but their platonic trailer-camp marriage is as punishing as purgatory. So those "illustrated sermons," in which Salome dances (not as her Biblical namesake but as Delilah of the "soft, yielding flesh and evil painted face"), give Preacher Hamilton the torments. Finally, Sister Mercedes, who cannot help noticing...