Word: pinings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angkor, slowly abandoned under threat of Thai occupation after 1431 but still the chief symbol of Cambodian identity, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world, with its colonnades and giant water reservoirs; its huge, impassive stone faces split by tree roots; its temple mountains and crumbling pine-cone spires. Spreading over some 150 sq. mi., it has excited dithyrambs from visitors ever since the French started going there in the 19th century. "I looked up at those towers rising above me, overgrown with greenery," wrote the novelist Pierre Loti in 1912, "and I suddenly shivered with fear...
...seen throughout the Southwest, the museum sits on a quiet street off Santa Fe's main plaza, where galleries selling O'Keeffe wannabes vie with Indians hawking turquoise and silver in the long colonnade of the Palace of the Governors. You enter through glass doors trimmed with New Mexican pine. The installation is spare and elegant, as are the 10 galleries with glowing plaster walls, earth-colored concrete floors and skylights that subtly draw viewers from room to room...
...sweet if slight, Broadway-Disneyish lyrics: "Books are better than love." Even her foils, the three brightly-clad senoritas--Lolita (Debbie Hunter '00), Rosita (Jasmin Roman '00), and Marguerita (Shannon Tracey '00)--who coo over the very name of El Bean, were clearly modeled after the three blondes who pine after macho-man Gaston...
...collected items will be donated to the Pine Street Inn, a local shelter that provides job training, drug rehabilitation and food to homeless men, women and children...
Meanwhile, the plight of Yellowstone's buffalo only gets worse. As riflemen dispatched more than 50 animals last week, hundreds of others, weak from hunger, lumbered through the thick drifts trying to stave off starvation by chewing on whatever bark and pine needles they could reach. Some good will is coming from the situation, however. Meat from the slain animals, properly treated, is being distributed to needy Indians and other groups...