Word: owl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...History's costliest ecoterrorist strike was carried out on behalf of the (a) spotted owl (b) lynx (c) snail darter (d) grizzly bear...
...wife, looking to see if she thinks a joke is funny before he laughs, and for the first time deferring to her choice in what movies they select, watching fewer car chases and more dramas. Where she used to have to nag him to get his sleep, the night-owl President can now be persuaded to retire when his up-with-the-birds wife is ready...
...back off plans to replace a modest gravel road in an old-growth forest with a broad, paved highway. Although there is no "Endangered Habitat Act," Phillips and other environmentalists were able, sometimes, to wrap the Endangered Species Act around old-growth forests. Two endangered birds, the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, nest in the moss-grown upper limbs of the ancient trees. Phillips is awed by the murrelet, a seabird that flies to Washington's forests--farther away every year because of logging--to feed its young...
...goes for broke on a novel that is just "entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form." At the podium, a smiling Updike read Wolfe's vivid if catty 1964 account of Updike receiving his first National Book Award: "He squinted at the light through his owl-eyed eyeglasses, then he ducked his head and his great thatchy medieval haircut toward his right shoulder." "Newspapers don't lie," Updike mischievously remarked before adding, "I remember the event as being rather intimate and sedate...a small low room with a scattering of librarians in flowered hats on folding chairs...
Could Friedland possibly have found anything else to blame us for? In addition to the ills listed above, he covers Harvard's struggling party scene, issues in his own social life and even the inappropriate behavior of a former employer. How about world hunger? Or the spotted owl? Society might be experiencing moral decay, but Friedland needs to find a more reasonable target for his finger pointing and name-calling...