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Dave, a.k.a. "Birdboy," spends hours with these toothpick bones, sorting and classifying, scratching his fingers as he polishes and examines. Eventually these ossified puzzles flesh out as the vivid watercolor aviary that decorates his room. I envy his tangible academic world--intellectual pursuits he can touch and feel...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Mind and Body | 3/18/1987 | See Source »

...addition, police estimated the value of property stolen from March 10 to March 16 at $12,178.43, including a gold money clip and a gold toothpick worth $250 that were taken from a secured locker at Blodgett Pool...

Author: By Donald N. Sull, | Title: Police Blotter | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

Keith barks commands, June lazes on deck, and the other two-the reasonable Britons-do what they are told. Alistair (Robin Herford), Keith's partner in business, sees everybody's side but his own, while his wife Emma (Lavinia Bertram) wonders how she can transform the toothpick that runs up his back into a spine. The only problem is that Keith, for all his bluster, does not know what he is doing, in business or on the boat, and Alistair, when he eventually takes the helm, runs them onto the mud. Salvation comes in the person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: This Realm, This Little England | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...Cafe, where a sign on the screen door decrees NO SHIRT, NO SHOES, NO SERVICE, a jut-jawed miner hunches over a cup of coffee at the Formica counter, digging coal grime out of his fingernails with one toothpick while another bobs at the corner of his mouth. "Ain't gonna give you my name," he growls. "But just remember Herrin and Muddy Bottoms. This ain't but the start." Herrin is a town some 20 miles to the west where striking union loyalists shot 19 would-be strikebreakers to death in the "Herrin Massacre" of 1922. Muddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: The Ghost of John L. Lewis | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Glenda Jackson is a buzz saw of an actress and Rose is a toothpick of a play. This sense of imbalance sets the tone of the evening. Jackson possesses a feral magnetism; the play is nerveless, somnolent, inert. She is direct; the play is diffuse. In vocal inflection and delivery, she is a wicked font of wit and irony; the play is parched for either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Midlands Blues | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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