Word: sheeps
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...column (the famous names could be in boldface), but it lacks the analytical substance that one has come to expect from its author. In a lovely passage, Vidal says he learned from his grandfather ''the ability to detect the false notes in those arias that our shepherds lull their sheep with"--and in fact his story sparkles when he deftly exposes the hypocrisies of Hollywood and Washington. As a writer he is at his best as an uncompromising critic, and at one point turns his sensibility on himself with sharp-eyed accuracy: ''In this text," he writes...
...tale is simple. Farmer Hoggett wins Babe in a raffle, then leaves him to fend for himself in the barnyard. A motherly sheep dog adopts him, a fatherly sheep dog growls dubiously at him, and a kooky duck gets him in trouble. But Babe wins respect, animal and human, when he drives off some sheep poachers, in the process gaining his first sense of vocation: he'd like to herd sheep himself. The dogs think he's too nice a guy for that line of work. But the sheep, tired of being nipped and woofed at, take a shine...
...back a proposal to cut crop subsidies to farm owners who earn more than $100,000 a year in nonfarm income, a measure known as the "Sam Donaldson Amendment,'' after the abc newsman who collected five-figure federal subsidies over the past two years to support his New Mexico sheep ranch. When asked why wealthy farmers should not help balance the budget, Nethercutt, sounding remarkably like Foley, replies that some spending programs are "just a sensible use of federal dollars...
From Harvard Square, take the Red line inbound and get off at Park Street. There you will find Boston Common, a 48-acre green oasis if fountains, monuments relaxed Bostonians and other tourists. Bought by the city in 1634 as pasture land for cows, goats and sheep and later used as a military training ground-the Common is the oldest public park in the nation...
Last year two Smith & Hawken marketing executives set out across the English moors in search of a man known to be the last of the withie crafters. Withies are conical willow trellises used in Britain to corral sheep "We were trekking through the most remote parts of England, and we were completely lost and it was getting dark," says Bonnie Dahan. "Finally, we came upon this man's workshop, and the withies were fabulous. It was a 200-year-old design, and he was the last craftsman who made them. So we made the deal, and we carried them...