Word: branch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peel off life's accessories and come in nakedness before the Lord, asking 'What do I do with my life?'" says Father Tom Gedeon of Notre Dame's Retreat International association, explaining the appeal of retreats. But isn't this just the latest fad of the Me generation? Twig Branch, 42, a Presbyterian insurance agent based in Charlotte, N.C., who first attended the Abbey of the Genesee last November, disagrees. "First of all," he says, "unlike est, they let you go to the bathroom. This has an authenticity to it. It was not manufactured 15 weeks ago for your consumption...
...line mullahs, led by the Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, are determined to blunt the new President's reformist efforts. Conservative-controlled state radio immediately dismissed Albright's olive branch as nothing new, demanding that the U.S. apologize for a half-century of wrongs toward Iran. In a domestic power struggle that has intensified in the past month, the hard-liners have put the moderate mayor of Tehran on trial on corruption charges, ousted a key Khatami Cabinet minister and ordered the closure of a new liberal newspaper licensed under the President's pledge of greater press freedom. "What...
...relationship. A dinosaur with feathers would clearly tip the scales: they're by far birds' most characteristic feature, and they had to evolve from somewhere. The skeptics have always contended that birds' ancestors were tree-dwelling lizards, and that feathers evolved to help the lizards flap their way from branch to branch. Fast-running, ground-dwelling dinos like velociraptors would never have needed feathers...
...assault with the album's first single, "Bloodclot." Several "hey-ho's" and "nah-nah's" later, with the melodies acting as some sort of immediately infectious drug and the muscle-bound punk cowboy aesthetic getting full play, the stage is set for the rest of the record to branch out. "Bloodclot" is a successful segue from "Wolves" to the rest of the new album...
...always fun to watch him simmer, snort and eventually soften. Snub-nosed, wide-eyed and high-spirited, Heche has an equally conventional transition to make, from Xanex-popping, would-be sophisticate with minimal survival skills to a woman who can bop a bad guy with a fallen tree branch and help repair the airplane for a getaway. She is also encumbered with a tiresome fiance (David Schwimmer), who takes up a lot of preaccident screen time and whose only function is to give her pause when Quinn shows his true, irresistibly cuddlesome colors...