Word: leafless
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...inversion of the Christmas fable. "Alert but Not Alarmed" sees households issued with intercontinental ballistic missiles by the government. These sit in backyards for so long that people take to decorating them and using them as kennels or toolsheds (one illustration shows them as a bright garden of strange, leafless trees under a perfect blue sky). In "Eric," the cultural otherness of a foreign exchange student is given embodiment as a tiny two-dimensional creature with a leaf for a head...
...family belongings. The box contains the flag that had draped her husband's casket six years ago. It is an ironic coincidence, a reporter's happenstance, brought about by a random turn down a neighborhood street that looks like so many others on the island - lifeless homes with leafless, saltwater-poisoned trees, battered fences hung with soggy towels, shattered windows, and front yards filled with piles of wet carpet, soaked clothes, moldy pots and pans, beach chairs and books, all water-laden, useless, even dangerous from soaking in the diseased stew, and hung about with the smell of decay. Perhaps...
...real life by his proclivity to tell amusing anecdotes on the talk show circuit, is convincingly portrayed. Capote’s big-city style, complete with overbearing manner and designer clothing is a stark contrast to the people and the Kansas landscape, full of long, barren shots, leafless trees, and overcast skies. He is the center of attention, not the murders, but the audience doesn’t mind as Capote’s quips break the tension.Despite a tremendous rookie effort (Miller has one documentary and a slate of TV commercials to his name; writer Dan Futterman, making...
...famous, good luck, enjoy the long and youthful life your money will buy, strive to be like your furniture--antique--and change spare body parts as often as your cars do. Hold on to what's left of the earth--along with the nine-legged, three-eyed frogs; the leafless trees; and the insane cows--because I'm outta here! CORA DIXON New York City...
City workers, for example, were out in force yesterday planting trees in the newly constructed granite pits on Mass. Ave. The tall, lanky specimens are leafless beings. Their wafer branches are stripped and gathered together in a forced upward cone, for transport it seems. Still, the trees are three. Pigeons on the grass alas, alas...