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...explode it in a month. Awakened by the warming sun, billions of tiny spruce-budworm larvae will hatch and turn into ravenous caterpillars, ready to eat all the needles and buds on spruce and balsam fir, hemlock and tamarack. Before their appetite is sated, the budworms are expected to chew their way through some 6 million acres of conifers. For 3.5 million of those acres-an area larger than Connecticut-this will be the third straight year of defoliation, and even healthy trees cannot survive such continuous attack...
...briefing lasted about half an hour, and consisted largely of warnings about the Holworthy squirrels ("They'll come right through the windows and chew up your term papers"), explanations of the course catalogue ("I've marked all the good courses with an X"), and a plug for The Crimson. As he was about to make his farewells. Swanson added, almost as an afterthought...
Like Michael, Coppola has bitten off more than he can chew. There are too many scenes and too many minutes in Godfather II for such a relatively straightforward story as it tells, and, while there are moments of suspense--when an ambush in a dimly lit New York bar explodes onto the street in a full-scale battle, when Michael's wife notices that the windows are open and a second later, burst after burst of gunfire destroys her bedroom--Coppola seems to have spent most of his energy on a few grand set pieces. The big party scene...
...CONSERVATION. I wonder, theoretically, if it's right that the auto industry should chew up as much raw materials as it chews up. I don't think we've done as much as we should with scrap. A lot more should be done with recycling materials...
...Yale drama school graduate, Arvin Brown was "burning to direct" when in 1965 he helped start the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn. And for his own professional debut in the converted warehouse in the city's food terminal, he bit off what most veterans fear to chew, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey, perhaps America's best play...