Word: overgrown
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...walk around the weeds onto the street and into the oncoming traffic just because it was so overgrown," Kershner says...
Dombeck, who has traveled more than his share of forest roads, agrees that they cause problems. But he's not a "zero cut" forester; he believes there's a place for the timber industry on federal lands. Without harvesting, he points out, forests become overgrown and can be destroyed as quickly by fires as they are by overlogging...
...this guy John Lasseter? At 41, with a chubby face and round wire-rimmed glasses, he looks like the overgrown kid he is at heart. He's just silly enough to ride a motorized hot dog to a Hollywood premiere. His offices at Pixar's animation studios in Point Richmond, outside San Francisco, are host to a veritable convention of Buzz and Woody toys: Mech Warrior Buzz, Space Sheriff Woody, Space Claw Buzz, Snake Whippin' Woody. They're not just props: Lasseter checks each toy tied in to Pixar's films. "He plays as hard as he works," laughs Lasseter...
...enough to give anyone palpitations. Scientists have shown that injecting alcohol into a congenitally enlarged heart and deliberately inducing a heart attack can ease the shortness of breath, chest pain and other symptoms of the genetic disorder. The alcohol--it's ethanol, equivalent to 200-proof vodka--kills overgrown heart muscle, enabling blood to flow more freely...
...second thing I think about--I know this sounds odd--is Bill Clinton. But if you could see this haunted house, you would note how sad and uncomfortable it makes you feel. The place is destroyed and not destroyed; it is both the ghost and the living thing. Its overgrown lawn is as thick as thatch. Its chimney tips like a cocked hat. At dusk its side wall, blasted by the dying autumn light, shows in a fierce and pathetic white--a burn victim in a sheet...