Word: barks
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...grew up in Bark River, a town of 1,000 people, about twenty minutes away from Bissell’s Escanaba, a city with about 15,000 residents...
...young warrior Dayindi (Gulpilil's son Jamie) hunts for goose eggs while being told Dreamtime stories - Ganalbingu, the language of the "magpie goose people," rules. Dayindi has been coveting his older brother's young wife, and the cautionary tale Minygululu (Peter Minygululu) offers his brother while stripping trees for bark and building canoes ultimately weaves back into their own. "People talk about, What is a white director doing making an indigenous story? But I'm not," insists De Heer, 54. "They're telling the story, largely, and I'm the mechanism by which they...
...After Mass, my parents and I often ate breakfast at our local diner, the Bark River Café. There, I would often share a booth with my two closest friends, as their parents had the same ritual of going to the café after church. As the adults sat at another table and talked about the upcoming high school boys’ basketball game, my friends and I ate chicken fingers and giggled over our elementary school crushes...
...bodyguards. “There were all sorts of things [at the temple] that seem taken straight from legend,” said David J. Henderson ’07. “There were several trees, probably a few hundred years old, with holes burrowed into the bark. These holes were from the monks over the years pushing and twisting their fingers into the bark of the tree in order to strengthen their fingers.” That sight certainly beats the bottom of yet another bottle of Cuervo...
Olmert's elegant and noiseless assumption of power last week was a singularly un-Israeli sort of act: a dog that didn't bark in a prohibitively raucous canine nation. His public gestures were tasteful. He refused to sit in Sharon's seat at the first Cabinet meeting or use Sharon's office. He gave no interviews, a real departure for a politician who had served as the Prime Minister's talk-radio pit bull. He traded his famously dreadful orange ties for blue and black stripes. He was not seen smoking one of his beloved cigars. He looked very...