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...dark blue jumpsuit and a black motorcycle helmet with a visor covering his face emerged from the van, brandishing a menacing-looking black box. He announced that his van contained 1,000 Ibs. of TNT with which he threatened to reduce the monument to "a pile of rocks." He brusquely handed a park ranger a manila envelope. In a handwritten message on the outside of the envelope he declared his intention to negotiate only with a member of the media, "a single person without dependents," to be specific. Inside the envelope was a more ominous warning...
ONLY THE RED BULL and a few other downright evil characters show glimpses of animated genius. Every detail of the red-pink bull steams with uncontrollable evil--especially the transparency of its imposing body. Two peripheral characters--Captain Cully the peg-legged pirate cat and a pile of bones forming a distorted skeleton--momentarily memorize the audience, as doss the terrifying flying beast Harpy, the evil counterpart of the unicorn. Otherwise, a dearth of fluid detail hampers the illusion...
Worldwide, the demand for wood fuel has never been greater; this need, particularly in the developing world, has led to wide-scale deforestation in the rain forests of Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asiz. If all the wood used this year were stacked on a soccer field, the pile would be 250 miles high. This current consumption rate, a staggering three million cubic meters yearly, is expected to have increased by two-thirds in the year 2000. The environmental side effects of the ever-growing need are best illustrated in Africa, as a recent article in West Africa magazine contends...
...help-seeking enemy, for example, who plays upon the odd fact of human behavior that by requesting your aid or advice he lowers himself before you and thus disables your wrath by your own sense of shame. Then too there is the help-giving enemy, who attempts to pile so much generosity about your head that you are brought to your knees in response. There is the next-of-kin enemy as well, who takes out on a loved one the wickedness he intends for you. Finally, there is the worthiest of the lot, the open-and-aboveboard enemy...
...table in the middle of another hall lies a pile of mail, all addressed to Vanserg Hall. The letters are earmarked for "Mining and Metallurgy Lab." "Project for Kibbutz Studies," and assorted economists, among others...