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The gray catbird, Dumetella carolinensis, atop a fir tree "The catbird seat" is an idiomatic phrase used to describe an enviable position, often in terms of having the upper hand or greater advantage in any type of dealing among parties.
The Oxford English Dictionary attributes the first recorded usage of the phrase catbird seat to this story. [1] Mrs. Barrows likes to use the phrase. Another character, Joey Hart, explains that Mrs. Barrows must have picked up the expression from the baseball broadcaster Red Barber and that to Barber, "sitting in the catbird seat" meant "'sitting pretty,' like a batter with three balls and no ...
The 1959 film The Battle of the Sexes was based on Thurber's 1942 short story "The Catbird Seat". In 1960, Thurber fulfilled a long-standing desire to be on the professional stage and played himself in 88 performances of the revue A Thurber Carnival (which echoes the title of his 1945 book, The Thurber Carnival ).
The Battle of the Sexes is a 1959 British black and white comedy film starring Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, and Constance Cummings, and directed by Charles Crichton.Based on the short story "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber, [3] it was adapted by Monja Danischewsky.
Catbird Records is an independent record label formed in September 2005 in Columbus, Ohio. It is based in New York City. It is based in New York City. It was founded and is run by Ryan Catbird of music blog The Catbirdseat. [ 1 ]
Lane continued writing and recording music, and released the independent EP Heart Connection (1984), the self-produced cassette In Concert (1989), and the full-length Catbird Seat (1995). She co-wrote the song "Wishing On Telstar" for the 1991 Susanna Hoffs album When You're a Boy.
Ruff was a faculty member at the Yale School of Music from 1971 until his retirement in 2017, [8] teaching music history, ethnomusicology, and arranging. [9] Ruff's classes at Yale, often with partner Dwike Mitchell, were free-flowing jam sessions: roller-coaster rides through the colors of American Improvisational Music.
The Lockheed Martin CATBird is a highly modified Boeing 737-330 designed as an avionics flight testbed aircraft. The name is an adaptive acronym, from C ooperative A vionics T est B ed ; CATBIRD is Lockheed's ICAO-designated company callsign .