Word: forested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart do Bogart, but without the "sentimentalist" soft spots of Rick in "Casablanca" or the nervousness of the hunted criminal in "Petrified Forest." Bogart is nothing more nor less than leather-skinned in this role: cool, jaded, manipulative. Dashiell Hammit included a last scene in his book during which the reader really grasps what a contemptible specimen Spade is. But Huston thankfully understood that a film version could dispense with this redeeming moralism...
Despite the public's curiosity, very few scientific studies of either very short or very tall people have been done. Gnomes, a delightful and wonderfully illustrated treatise on the six-inch people who inhabit forest and field, may help fill that...
...creatures are so amiable. Goblins, those foot-high fiends of the forest, and house ghosts are obnoxious and troublesome. But the real threat to gnomes comes from the troll--a disgusting, hairy and unkempt Northern European dolt who gets his jollies by keeping his gnomes to the grindstones and by lighting a gnome on fire and then playing hot potato with him. Gnomes are for whom the troll yells, so to speak...
...must be backed by resources beyond the reach of a single investor. So last week he reached agreement to sell the Star for $20 million to Time Inc., publisher of TIME, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, MONEY and FORTUNE magazines. The company, which also has extensive book, cable television and forest-products operations, last year had profits of about $90 million on revenues of $1.25 billion...
...should remind us all that the environmental movement has yet to make a real impact on Congress or the White House. Lack of budget support for forestry research and management is a national disgrace. We lose more trees to insects and disease every year than we do to forest fires...