Nokia almost got it with the 770/N800 but for people with gargantuan thumbs, "tapping" ASDF in one fell swoop is about as fun as riding a bike with no seat.
If Mr. Talley was Vogue's resident peacock, swooping about in capes and issuing edicts, Mr. Bowles is more its professor, with one of the largest private collections of vintage clothing in the world, which he stores in the Bronx and Queens.
It was almost like a bright light, swooping about the heath, and occasionally, to our great delight, hovering, beating its wings for all it was worth, like an overweight bloke (such as myself) desperately peddling a bike uphill.
If a person is caught pestering one — fussing with its nest, or otherwise interrupting its daily routine of swooping about and collecting fish — she can be fined a hundred thousand dollars, imprisoned for as long as a year, or both.
Andy Curtin, an owner looking more shipmate than band mate in a beard and woolen cap, swoops about with dishes you'll be happy to dine on: specials like huge, scrumptious, head-on shrimp, baked in salt with a touch of tarragon ($12); snappy, fascinating salads like pea shoots with bittersweet popcorn shoots, watermelon radishes and golden beets ($8).
It rattles along nicely, and the encounters with all the various species of alien are managed with great flair, especially our heroes' undisciplined attempt to shoot down the giant pterodactyl-type thing swooping about a shopping mall with a shoplifter in its beak.
Anything you can imagine doing on a flying skateboard, Westerfeld's got it covered, to the point where all that swooping about begins to smack of commercial calculation, as if the complexity, subtlety and darkness of this world weren't enough.
The fascists are on one side, along with a handful of elderly priests and nuns swooping about like cracked-out ravens and shaking their crucifixes at anyone who will pay attention, and anti-fascists on the other, behind a solid wall of riot shields.
The fascists are on one side, along with a handful of elderly priests and nuns swooping about like cracked-out ravens and shaking their crucifixes at anyone who will pay them attention, and anti-fascists on the other, behind a solid wall of riot shields.
