Word: creeper
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...Seas" will stick in your mind, no matter how hard you try to forget them. Other songs, such as "Long Hot Summer," creep into your consciousness after repeated listenings. So approach 12 Days to Paris with caution, then, because its Ugly Rock will infect you and set your Huxton Creeper side free...
...that song, Craw sings, "My darker side, my Huxton Creeper side, wants to be set free." One wonders, however, if it isn't Craw's softer side that wants to be set free. The songs he composes by himself have a tendency towards melodic balladry that doesn't mesh with the rest of the Huxtons' musical vision...
...towering Mauna Kea, a 13,800-ft. extinct volcano in Hawaii, is a peculiar mix of the exotic. Gnarled koa trees twist up from its tropical slopes, where the endangered palila bird, a tiny yellow honey creeper, crushes rock-hard mamane seeds with its beak. But up on top, science has taken over. Because the exceptionally dry and stable atmosphere over Mauna Kea makes the site among the world's best spots for star gazing, six telescopes have been built on the volcano's crest, and two more are under construction...
...there is a hierarchy among Washington's plants, those on the 19 acres around the White House, like osmanthus and purple winter creeper, must be the swells, the botanical elite of the city, maybe of the nation. And one plant is at the top of that heap. No other in history has been more photographed, more glimpsed in person by the world's high and mighty, more privy (if a plant can by privy) to the portentous intimacies of world politics, than a certain Swedish ivy (Plectranthus australis) that dwells deep inside the Executive Mansion...
...Creeper...