Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haigh, said Defense Counsel Fyfe, had been tormented for years by a recurrent dream. In it, he saw "a veritable forest of crucifixes ... the crucifixes turned into trees. Then a man appeared collecting something from the dripping trees, which seemed at first to be rain or dew. But then it became blood." The dream, said Sir David, left his client "with an overpowering desire to have blood...
...ballet opens in a "forest of idylls," with Tristan and Isolde dancing before an altar on which stands a love symbol: a pair of giant legs topped by a hairy mask. In Scene 2, on "the Isles of Death," Tristan first dances with an insectlike apparition, then with something dressed as a sailing ship. In the end, Tristan is destroyed by his love, as in "the tragic nuptial rites of the praying mantis, in which the female devours the male...
Warming himself last week in the glow of his fireworks, Leonidoff was already hatching new spectacles to keep the theater's 6,200 seats filled. One of his pet projects: a cavalcade of the building of the West, opening with a raging forest fire and closing with the San Francisco skyline rising gold-plated out of the horizon...
...subtropical mountain rain forest, or "high jungle," of Venezuela, Beebe's zoologist-assistant Jocelyn Crane ran across a fantastic concrete hotel building that had been left to molder unfinished after the death, in 1935, of its builder, Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. If Rancho Grande was in the jungle, the jungle was also in Rancho Grande-nesting in its crevices, pattering and pullulating in its chambers, making every wall "a landscape of mold and slime." With the consent of the Venezuelan government and the support of the New York Zoological Society and the Creole Petroleum Corp., the Beebe...
...close observation Beebe (who will be 72 July 29), liked to squat motionless as a stump in the forest or sit for hours on the limb of a tree. For long-range work he used giant binoculars mounted on a tripod; with these he could make out the scent gland of the hind leg of a butterfly a quarter of a mile away. "I often wondered," he says, in a sentence of purest Beebe, "what the soaring vultures, looking down, made of this strange creature with great tubular eyes and five legs...