Word: sheeps
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...tree farms, transmogrified by science into monocultural stands of uniform height and genetic stock. In a word, a crop. Many anglers cast into rivers and lakes devoid of native fish. Stocked European brown trout and transplanted rainbows ply our streams, with native brook and cutthroat trout in retreat. Bighorn sheep and other game herds are shunted about for the hunter's delight...
...wonder. Here's a spectacular that really is -- a lavish celebration of the spirit of Christmas simultaneously traditional and inventive. Teddy bears dance The Nutcracker, Scrooge learns compassion, ice skaters whirl around a mini Rockefeller Plaza rink, the Rockettes march The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, and shepherds and sheep, Wise Men and camels celebrate the Nativity. Joy to the world...
...particularly bizarre incident two years ago, unidentified students dismembered a sheep and draped the statue with its entrails. A few years earlier, Dartmouth students doused the statue with green paint on the occasion of the Harvard-Dartmouth football game...
...hour onscreen, the Genie makes dozens of eyeblink metamorphoses: a Scotsman, a Scots dog, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Senor Wences, Ed Sullivan, Groucho Marx, a French waiter, a turkey, the crows from Dumbo, Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, a rabbit, a dinosaur, William F. Buckley Jr., Robert De Niro, a stewardess, a bashful sheep, Pinocchio, a magician, a Jean Gabin-style Frenchman, Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid, Arsenio Hall, a finicky tailor, Walter Brennan, a TV parade host and hostess, Ethel Merman, Rodney Dangerfield, Jack Nicholson, a talking lampshade, a bee, a U- boat, a one-man band and a quartet...
...pottery; and cemeteries. The Yangshao buried goods with their dead, indicating a belief in the afterlife, but the homogeneity of the buried objects suggests that social classes had not yet appeared. Like the other principal culture of that region and time, known as the Longshan, the Yangshao kept pigs, sheep, chicken, buffalo and oxen, and used finely crafted tools made from stone, bone and wood...