Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA by Eliot Porter. Dutton. $21.95. Before the lens of noted Nature Photographer Porter, the common chipping sparrow looks as powerful and dramatic as the Owl-Magician in Swan Lake. The common flicker is seized for eternity as the extraordinarily marked bird that he is-though most country strollers only see him taking off ahead of them with a flash of white rump. In an engagingly informal text, Porter is most fascinating describing the lengths to which a bird photographer will go to get results. Once, to reach a kinglet's nest, he simply sawed...
...swirl of white feathers, a dazzle of rhinestones and a white Adolfo dress that seemed pasted to her, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper outswanned them all at the Swan Ball in Nashville, Tenn. She was not there for social swimming, she explained, but for Art-an exhibit of her collages and drawings at the Tennessee Fine Arts Center. It was Gloria's fine-line slimness, though, that caught the eye. What magic diet had brought her 5 ft. 7½ in. down to 98 Ibs.? "It just happened," she told Columnist Eugenia Sheppard. "In the mornings I just drank...
...gunshots of May 15 ring out a few more notes in the swan song of democracy, I should think that both of the major parties' candidates would, if only for their own protection, summon the courage to stand up to the adherents of gun ownership and make meaningful federal gun control an issue in their respective campaigns...
...both limpid and mysterious, and this is largely the result of Westermann's loving attention to craft. He manipulates his repertory of boxes, laminations, dovetails, locks, hinges and clamps with unerring finesse. The effect-as in the absurd log-cabin toy tower that rises, with a metal swan flapping from its crenelations, inside the box called Battle of Little Jack's Creek, 1970-is to convince you of the utter reality, the solid presence, of a completely surreal world, pinned and glued at all its joints and present in all its contradictions. He is a folkish artist...
Sinclair's demonic duo first appeared in his 1967 novel, Gog. Like Magog, it was a witty, often brilliant fusing of legend and flesh, satire and swan song. Gog began with a seven-foot-tall amnesiac washed up on a Scottish beach. He proceeded, dreamlike, toward London, where he found his true identity as a wealthy Celtic scholar named George Griffin...