Word: thrush
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...from side to side. He becomes an eagle, the odds-on favorite to win God's most majestic sound. It may be Sunday morning in Rockport village in the year 1981, but now it is also the first day of creation. When Parents' unsuspecting eagle-with a thrush stowed away on its back-lifts off majestically at the upward wave of the storyteller's hand, the audience lifts off too, out the window of the Opera House, above the sun-dappled boats lying at anchor in Rockport harbor, beyond time, beyond space. Somewhere off in a primeval...
...thing they all agree on is that storyteller and audience somehow constitute a single being, as inseparable as two lovers. One goes nowhere without the other. Either storyteller and audience are borne up together, like Parents' eagle and thrush, or else they are left earth-bound together, stranded, waiting for the small miracle to happen...
...that looks like a production number from Scaramouche as directed by Federico Fellini. In fact, her Minstrels past and her new romantic future seem equally synthetic. She has, simply, a good solid way with a ballad. She is the kind of stylist an earlier time would have called a thrush, and despite what she calls her "perpetual frog," she sings as if she has a gardenia behind...
...something to watch. In air and bearing, she possesses regal command. Her arrant good looks, particularly those thrush-startled violet eyes, fix all other eyes upon her. On glimpsing her, Poe might have written his poem "To Helen" apostrophizing the most beguiling beauty of the ancient world. QE3 (as someone recently nicknamed Taylor) conjures up that grace and grandeur...
...running a restaurant in France, the Olympe in Paris, prides herself on her salmon steaks cooked on a bed of sorrel en papillotes. And then there is Yvonne Soliva, of the Moulin de Tante Yvonne in Bouches-du-Rhône, one of whose favorite dishes is ragout of thrush (18 birds for six people). First catch the thrush...