Word: gardenful
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...down customs officials who ordered him to translate his 10,000-book library into Arabic for their perusal, and endure plagues of rats, snakes, locusts, mosquitoes, bees and - as part of a mysterious campaign to force him out - the occasional dead animal dangling from a fruit tree in his garden. And that stuff was easy. The real problems involved jinns, the spirits that many Moroccans accept as hazards of daily life. Shah's new home - a sprawling, decrepit, Arabian Nights complex in Casablanca once owned by a real caliph - was crawling with them. His ever-expanding workforce was terrified...
...third house, which belongs to a man named Ahmed Ayed. One of Ahmed's five sons, Yousif, who lived in a house next door, told TIME that after hearing a prolonged burst of gunfire from his father's house, he rushed over. Iraqi soldiers keeping watch in the garden prevented him from going in. "They told me, 'There's nothing you can do. Don't come closer, or the Americans will kill you too.' The Americans didn't let anybody into the house until 6:30 the next morning." Ayed says that by then the bodies were gone...
...cineplex. It seems odd that parents who caution their children to avoid sex, drugs and violence don' t mind exposing them to these themes on the big screen. There are too few "magic " years for children; maybe watching Finding Nemo for the 10th time or reading The Secret Garden out loud can prolong them a bit. If nothing else, they ' ll sleep a little better...
...that phrase, “walled garden,” has complicated connotations, both historically and in the context of media outlets. Online, it has come to suggest monopoly and content lock-in (that is, practices designed to maintain even unhappy customers by constructing barriers to exit) as much as it has privacy: America Online (AOL) was referred to in the mid 90s as a walled garden because they denied their subscribers access to the Internet at large and denied outsiders access to the content created within. This made it difficult for AOL users to leave and enjoy the fruits...
...result, however, is still a moodier and more muted “Garden State.” Instead of angsty confessions beside roaring fireplaces, “Winter Passing” has sparse and choppy dialogues permeated by long glances and extended silences. Instead of a quirky local girl, we get a quirky aspiring Christian rocker. Instead of suburban Jersey, we get suburban Michigan. Instead of “Garden State” we get “Winter Passing,” a veiled yet less self-indulgent remake of Zach Braff’s campus classic...