Word: cacti
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...addition to the equipment on the main level, WellBridge offers a heated pool, complete with a whirlpool and potted cacti, an aerobic studio with a tiled wood floor and a locker room with a sauna and a steam room...
...more than a third of all the Galapagos giant tortoises--is approaching ecological collapse as a result of an infestation of goats and burros. The goat population is so large (50,000 to 75,000) that between 100 and 150 kids are born every day. The goats knock down cacti and trees and munch on the vegetation on which the tortoises depend, while the burros trample the tortoise nests. Elsewhere on Isabela, dogs have eaten most of the land iguanas. On Santiago, goats, pigs, burros, cows and rats have wreaked havoc on the native plant communities. Fire ants...
When two actors share a claustrophobically small set for a full hour with a live band and a couple of painted cacti, there are a frightening number of things that could go wrong. But graduate student Barbara Matteau's Motel Blues, at the Leverett Old Library, offers the rare pleasure of experimental theater that actually succeeds...
...also raises a few questions: the cacti suggest a Western desert, the Confederate flag suggests the South, and the ragged lawn chairs evoke a tornado-belt trailer park. The characters, perhaps, would be most at home in California, where the exploitative photographer and the body-obsessed model are recognized stereotypes. This melange of bad taste is not actively distracting, but picking the bad taste of a single region could have made the characters more clear...
...music-video producer who had made videos for Robert Cray, Alice Cooper and the Commodores, started writing. Nine months later, Thelma & Louise found its way to director Ridley Scott and, through him, to MGM/UA. During the shooting, Scott added much of the phallic imagery -- the huge trucks, the giant cacti and a chemical-spewing plane -- that has riled some of the film's detractors. He also cut scenes that portrayed the close friendship between the two title characters, including one in which each confides what she fears most (for Thelma, growing old with a husband who doesn't love...