Word: cactuses
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...newcomer to Heaven: "How are things in Nazareth?" "They are changing," replied the Nazarene. "There are new political leaders and new civic programs, and the citizens are full of hope." "I can see that nothing has changed," sighed Jesus. "And besides, " continued the Nazarene, "they are cleaning up the Cactus Quarter." "So Nazareth really is changing!"said Jesus...
...grave. The anatomy is haywire, the drawing childish; but this emptily grinning totem of wooden bones, flagellating itself above a mysterious round stone, is as strange as any surrealist sculpture by Giacometti, filled with a sense of isolation - an image as suited to its desert as any cactus flower...
Made from a cactus-like succulent grown in volcanic soil near the town of Tequila in Jalisco, tequila was probably the first distilled liquor in America; it was an Aztec tipple. Today its staunchest U.S. aficionados are in the West, where generations of visitors to Baja California have knocked back the musty-smelling liquor for a few cents a glass. It is no cheap shot north of the border; prized brands like José Cuervo 1800 and Sauza Conmemorativo sell for $10 to $11 a fifth. Nonetheless, at outlets such as Liquor Castle in Beverly Hills, which sells 20 cases...
...your throat we shall stay, A piece of glass, a cactus thorn, And in your eyes, A blazing fire...
...runner beans, grown a sunflower or tasted a cultivated strawberry. The imagined landscapes were either writhing with fearsome organic life or else stupendous and desolate. When Frans Post, a traveling 17th century artist, painted a view of the Sao Francisco River in Bra zil, a lone capybara by a cactus tree took on the ruminative air of a Caspar Da vid Friedrich monk, contemplating the infinite. "What a fabulous and extravagant country we're in!" exclaimed the great naturalist Von Humbolt...