Word: roam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...namesake, the guanacaste, whose branches can stretch over an acre of land and whose trunk soars 100 ft. Spider, howling and white-faced monkeys swing through the forest canopy. White-tailed deer and peccaries (a kind of wild pig) forage in the underbrush. Jaguars, ocelots, coyotes and gray foxes roam the woods at night. Ridley turtles nest on the park's Pacific beaches. Says Janzen: "Virtually all the species that were there when the Spaniards hit are still around...
...sort of folks one expects to bump into at a bridge party, a church service, a Rotary Club meeting. They are not the kind of people likely to show up for, say, a seance. Yet, on Oct. 31, the night souls of the dead are said to roam the earth, that is just where a visitor found the chairman of Lawrence University's psychology department, the president of a local construction company, the CEO of a large paper company, the executive director of the county's Outagamie Museum, the city's director of planning and development and about...
...school liberated Byrne. He logged time at two of them, the Maryland Institute's College of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. He was formally enrolled at R.I.S.D. for just two semesters but subsequently spent one year hanging out and letting his fantasies roam wild. "He was doing conceptual art," Tina Weymouth remembers. "David has never been one for draftsmanship." Byrne earned some money working the grill at a hot dog stand but largely devoted himself to experimental extravagance. At Maryland he formed a duo called Bizadi with an accordion-playing friend, and would sometimes perform...
...vicarious entertainments pervert the definition of nation, to say nothing of personality. Connected by computer, talking to one another through radio-helmets, Theroux's privileged few incubate fantasies and promote hideous realities. The worst is a pornography of violence practiced by a private police force known as Godseye. They roam Manhattan's abandoned neighborhoods in murderous gunships looking for excuses to "burn" the Starkies, Skells or whatever other name they can devise to distance themselves from the underclass...
...Navy had launched the first, and still most famous, of the new submersibles, Alvin. Operated by Woods Hole, the 23-ft.-long craft could carry three people to a depth of 6,000 ft., pick up objects with an arm and claw, and roam the sea floor at a speed of one knot (Alvin has since been lengthened to 25 ft. and given a second arm-claw, as well as a new pressure hull that enables it to operate as far down as 13,120 ft.). The stellar performance of the tiny sub during the second Titanic mission was only...