Word: bird
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Clemente grew up and attended high school in Albany, N.Y., where he started all four years for his varsity basketball team. A Larry Bird fan, Clemente said his room at home is filled with all types of Bird memorabilia, from jerseys to posters. After a short stint at St. Thomas More, a prep school in Oakdale, Conn., Clemente came to Cambridge. But the decision wasn't as automatic as some might think...
...meditations on maternity, pain and nationality. In "Nesting I" (2000), four large-format Polaroids set side by side, the two photographs in the middle show the artist with her eyes calmly shut, her face decorated with yellow and green paint, her shoulders and neck with cruel scratches. The wooden bird perched upon her head in both pictures looks robotic and menacing; since the bird she chose is native to New England, I wondered if the photographs represent an intersection of Cuba and Massachusetts that Campos-Pons perhaps has trouble reconciling. In the two outer photographs, the birds gaze out quizzically...
...sees fit. Her heroines are genuinely interesting, however, even when they're patiently teaching lessons to the benighted, and the author sometimes pokes a little gentle fun at their high-mindedness. When Deanna laboriously captures a moth in her cabin and steps outside to liberate it, a bird darts down and grabs a free meal...
...Tinky Winky b) Big Bird c) Barney d) Al Gore during the second presidential debate...
...most underappreciated singers in country music is Grand Ole Opry star Little Jimmy Dickens, who turns 75 this year. Instead of being remembered for the fine ballad singer that he is, his main legacy is a string of rather silly novelty tunes (his biggest hit was "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose") perhaps engendered because crowds found it hard to take the less-than-five-foot Dickens seriously. It's a pity - he had a fine voice (it's a bit ragged now), some good material in his repertoire and a good heart...