He said if it hadn't been for the media, the print media and television, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings, a choir without a song.

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Yet they are far larger than the bird's wings, and shimmer with an iridescent glow.

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Across the desk, his wife Marie, 54, colours the wings of a bird she is painting onto a vase.

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It sported broad wings and feathers like a bird, but it also had three-fingered claws, sharp teeth and a long bony tail similar to a dinosaur.

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