Word: elm
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...longer apparent today. McCain lost my respect when he made a Faustian bargain to get the vote of his party's base. Having abandoned his critiques of the Iraq war and Jerry Falwell, the straight-talk candidate is just a shell of who he was eight years ago. Mary Elm, Chicago...
...MARY ELM, CHICAGO...
...look and feel of natural products really resonates with customers," says Alex Bates, senior vice president of product development for West Elm, the home-furnishings retailer whose current catalog is filled with animal-patterned fabrics, tree-stump tables, wood-imprinted carpets and an antler-inspired lamp that has become a runaway big seller. "It's a lot of borrowing of and being inspired by natural patterns and textures," she says. "There's definitely a connection between the growing popularity and concern with environmental issues and respect for the natural world...
...Valkenburgh is the man who saved Harvard Yard. In the early 90s, when the Yard’s canopy was slowly thinning due to Dutch elm disease, the task for replanting had become urgent. The University then convened a replanting committee, which van Valkenburgh led, one that is largely responsible for the way Harvard Yard looks today...
...hovering, parental perfectionist, disapproves strongly of sister Jennifer Jason Leigh’s engagement to scatterbrained starving artist Jack Black. Throw in Kidman’s own extramarital affair with the local literary savant, a family of bizarre survivalist neighbors, Pais’ puberty issues, and one ubiquitously symbolic elm tree, and you have something close to the film’s narrative. The character dynamic, from the beginning of the film, is in a perpetual state of breakdown. Kidman finds Leigh and Black in a delicate emotional equilibrium that’s quickly thrown into disarray upon her arrival...