For more than a century anseriform birds were considered to have been closely related to, and to have originated from, the game fowl of the order Galliformes.

It has a needlelike tower rising above a 23-foot-8-inch-wide street front.

At eight you thought of boys as cat drowners and bird stoners. At nine there was another reason for boys' existence: they either noticed you or they didn't, and it desperately mattered which.

If I saw a cool, postcardy subject, like the partially burned-out neon Chow Mein sign on Second Avenue and Twelfth Street, I'd make Herve or a visiting Ron or Jack pose under it.