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Then they make bird-man love to the Bon Iver-sampling Lost in the World before the phoenix sets herself on fire and Kanye has to run away faster than you'd think possible for a man wearing Gucci loafers.
Kanye West's Runaway: Purple Rain or bird brains? Will Dean 2010
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This 2,000-year-old clay model shows a bird-man "flying" as the pole sways back and forth.
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After going through past issues this morning, it seems to me that bird-man is a Feitheran.
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As for the bird-man, I take it that's Rabat, but that would throw a monkey wrench into my theory that the Trinitarians of Earth-Trinity didn't become gods.
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The three boys felt extremely doubtful about this, as none of them now believed that the Professor was a real bird-man, any more than Sir Richard was really a Sir Anybody!
Working Without a Net Randy Lowens 2010
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Images like the Lascaux bird-man I cited above should indicate at least that primitive man had some talent for abstraction, though that doesn't eliminate the possibility that some primitive art is no more complex than hanging a mounted trout on the wall.
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It may be technically wrong to call the Lascaux bird-man a "shaman," since the specific traditions of the shaman develop thousands of years later.
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If Pete Wentz was a bird-man from Flash Gordon, instead of hawk wings he would have peacock tail.
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As a teenager I was hard-core and obsessed, but I am not a professional bird-man now.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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The novel follows the misadventures of a mixed band of heroes and antiheroes, of the ‘rebel’ inventor and scientist Isaac trying to build wings for a flightless bird-man of the desert; of the half-human, half-insectoid artist Lin being called upon to create the most complex piece of art of her life; of a journalist working for a secret newspaper dedicated to bringing down the corrupt government.
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville Adam Whitehead 2006
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