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...been Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Labor (the only woman ever to hold two Cabinet positions in different administrations), feel the need to begin an interview with a journalist riding in the back seat of a car by saying, "I was elected president of the third-grade bird club and in the seventh grade, I started the junior book club and made myself president"? And to say those words straight, without irony...
...copy them, because that makes them really mine," she says. Art is just one of her passions. Among the others: her Abyssinian cat Horatio, cooking pizza and cakes, swimming, modern dance and rock 'n' roll. "I go crazy for the Beatles," says Olivia. "I feel free as a bird when I dance to their songs...
...tried to accept that finding calmly. Given the widespread speculation in the press recently about the possibility that Perot has always been a cuckoo bird, I figured that the discrepancy might be explained by the human tendency to remember what we wish we had done rather than what we did. It's possible that a survey taken now among baby boomers would indicate that almost none of them wore either Nehru jackets or bell-bottom blue jeans in the late...
...Martin-ized versions of the final material. Check out the Beatles unplugged: a rollicking Got to Get You into My Life featuring sumptuous harmonies; the fetal version of A Day in the Life; a mainly acoustic, hand-jivey I'm Looking Through You; a busted take of And Your Bird Can Sing, in which John and Paul teeter into wild giggling--two kids in love with the fun of making music...
...READ WITH DISMAY YOUR ARTICLE "Caribbean Blizzard" [WORLD, Feb. 26]. Your remarks about "the Bird dynasty" looking the other way as drug traffickers operate in Antigua are unfair. Vere C. Bird has been a faithful servant of the people of Antigua and Barbuda; his two sons Lester and Vere Jr. have undergone the same kinds of political tests all other politicians face in democratic countries. For instance, it was Prime Minister Lester Bird who insisted on the public inquiry into Vere Bird Jr.'s involvement with an illegal transshipment of guns, placing his loyalty to the country above that owed...