Word: moss
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...terrified. But one has to understand it is OK not to know. I ended up in Social Anthro, and using all my electives at VES. My parents are hardworking teachers in Brooklyn, I thought there was something wrong about doing just VES.THC: [Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking] Robb Moss gave a great introduction for your film. Did you know him while at Harvard? DA: Well, I took some classes in VES, and it was a small, familiar community. We all knew each other. THC: So you took their renowned studio classes?DA: Yes, I took a studio painting class...
...After an hour's searching, Richards and his companion, a local hunter, found the source: a "warty brown blob" squatting on moss in a patch of nettles. When he reached over and gently took hold of the blob, it twisted viciously in a very unfroglike manner and bit him on the hand. "I was shocked," he says. "Frogs don't normally bite you. There's only one other frog in P.N.G. that does that." The animal's bite, coupled with its unique cry and strange appearance, told Richards he had snared a place in the zoological textbooks with the discovery...
...like that. Anyway, this time around, ankle boots are much more tolerable, and more like a significantly sturdier high-heel. They are generally being shown with skirts as opposed to pants. If they are shown with pants, the pants must be skinny and tuck into the boots themselves. Kate Moss is excellent at wearing ankle boots tucked into pants. I have always admitted she is a very talented woman. Unfortunately, however, this is another trend where a raging vitamin deficiency or having the thighs of a four-year-old are necessary for showing off your style. If one is desperate...
...Moss's book-the third volume in an autobiographical trilogy that began with Bye Bye Blackbird and Distant Archipelagos-is more than just a civil servant's confessional, however. The story begins with his arrival in Hong Kong in 1965 as a senior information officer in Government Information Services (the departmental initials were sarcastically said to stand for "God Is Speaking"). A rich store of anecdotes spans what were, arguably, the most tumultuous periods of Hong Kong's history-the civil unrest and refugee influx of the late 1960s, the social changes wrought by the rapid industrialization of the 1970s...
...Spirits don't come much more generous than this. These days, Moss is not short of remunerative assignments if his prolific output of books and articles is anything to go by, and he is living in a spacious new home on Ma Wan-an outlying island of Hong Kong where slick new apartment blocks juxtapose a largely abandoned fishing village that was once the island's only settlement. From the highest colonial circles to a working-class estate to an island home that encapsulates the new Hong Kong as it hovers between the past and future: Moss's trajectory mirrors...