Word: clay
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...youth could call himself a man until he had defeated an enemy warrior in battle, beheaded the corpse with a cassowary-bone dagger, and displayed the head on his clan's wooden slit drum. And few family houses were complete without the skull of an ancestor, decorated with clay features, shell eyes and real hair to create a lifelike image of the deceased...
Director David Dobkin (veteran of the Wilson flick “Shanghai Knights” and Vaughn’s “Clay Pigeons”) allows the romance to slip into overload, and the numerous musical montages and extreme close-ups to start to grate. But all this is tempered by the chemistry of Wilson and McAdams...
...then brought up a lumbering dragline whose huge bucket shovel began chewing a V-shaped wedge out of the 25-ft.-high levee. Twenty feet down, the shovel uncovered the fully clothed, badly decomposed bodies of three young men, lying side by side in a pocket of red clay. They had been dumped there while the dam was still being built, and in the weeks afterward a local contractor had unknowingly piled earth higher and higher on their primitive graves...
...pockmarked with the jutting remains of houses, automobiles, trees and sometimes dead bodies. The government planned to have the Roman Catholic Church declare the area a "holy ground," meaning that more than 20,000 corpses would probably remain forever entombed under the hardening mass of volcanic ash, sand and clay. Health Minister Rafael de Zubiria expressed concern over potential outbreaks of disease, though he emphasized that there was no sign of epidemics...
...HAMILTON RUSSELL: One of the first estates to put Walker Bay on the map, Hamilton Russell, tel: (27-28) 312 3595, produces Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines that beautifully express the area's stony, clay-rich and shale-derived terroir. Citrus notes enhance the Chardonnay's mineralized dryness, while the Pinot Noir is robust and fruity, with hints of coffee...