Because of their tameness on land, many albatrosses are known by the common names mollymawk (from the Dutch for "foolish gull") and gooney.
Homicide by vehicular assault is a gooney teen fantasy, and Tarantino goes all the way with the extreme violence of it, showing us the women's bodies being pulled apart over and over.
Some of the boys made gooney sounds if they heard laughter coming from behind the always closed door, and Ares had more than once heard his brother referred to as a "freak".
If we finally see the Wheelers and their set as strange and remote "50's types" with their smoky Paris reveries, their gooney business pontifications, no-fuss sexual dalliances, their memories of youth and a just war fast receding, we should still, I would plead, let this novel have its way with us.
The "gooney" bird made several passes over the grassy island hillsides at relatively slow speed, treating the researchers to great views at close range.
This informal place offers soups (cheesy crab, $3), salads ($3 to $6) and sandwiches ($6 to $8) that are playfully named for birds (Gooney Bird).
ONE of the first jobs Babbage had as a young engineer was to help design a modern equivalent of the Douglas DC-3 airliner, known as the Dakota in Britain and (for unfathomable reasons) the Gooney Bird by allied pilots during the second world war.
Babbage believes the Gooney Bird was one of a kind unrepeatable, because today's more competitive times demand complexity in design, where once simplicity sufficed.
On May 7th the remaining rebels agreed to leave too, handing the city over to regime controlRevenge of the Gooney BirdThe twin-engined DC-3 ruled the skies for over 20 years, but by the 1950s aviation experts deemed its days numbered.
Her two series of lighthearted adventures for younger readers about Anastasia Krupnik and her brother, Sam, number 13 books to date, and her other two series (about the Tate siblings and a high-spirited girl called Gooney Bird) add another five volumes to an already large oeuvre.
Less provocative than her Newbery winners, it's also more serious than the Krupnik and Gooney Bird books.
