Word: birding
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...early scene Ada comes to the beach and finds her piano in a crate. Opening it, she plays ecstatically; her daughter dances gaily, garlanded in seaweed; and Baines gets a first inkling of the lifeline that art is for Ada. The camera ascends to Campion's favorite bird's-eye view to reveal a huge sea horse magically sculpted from sand and shells. Life, this beautiful image suggests, is a pattern we cannot see, except through the artist's Olympian...
...between sightings, Co-captain and team founder Dan Cooper '95 spoke of the group's beginnings. Cooper is an avid birder who "can't remember not being interested in birds" and met another founder of the group, Will Hutcheson '97, at bird watching camp in 1988. Dan and Will's brother, Allen, spent their first two years at Harvard going on birding expeditions of their own, but decided to expand when Will started at Harvard this fall. They postered and began holding regular weekly meetings. The result: an as yet unofficial organization with 15 active members...
...more discreet, more Stevens-like, than the book. They have withheld the revelations of tears and admission of heartbreak that finally clatter around the butler like broken Wedgwood. Here, Stevens will never wake violently from his reverie of duty served; he will be trapped in Darlington Hall like a bird that can't find an open window. So the filmmakers have dared believe that the audience will detect these domestic cataclysms in the performance of the man who plays Stevens...
What animal he thinks he is A platypus. No one can tell what it should be--a mammal, a bird, a reptile...
...Saturday, the cries of the 18-year-olds were just as enthusiastic as the cries of the four-year-olds when Curious George, the Man in the Yellow Hat and Big Bird led a parade through the Yard...