Word: streaming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vestiges of that prehistoric menagerie came out of a hole about 150 ft. long, 60 ft. wide and 25 ft. deep, abutting Florida's Route 241 outside of Gainesville. It was excavated at the site of what once was a fast-moving stream that flowed into a great salt marsh along the Gulf of Mexico. Bodies of dead animals collected in the water, and the remains sank to the bottom of the stream. As layer after layer of sediment piled up, the stream eventually vanished, but the bones of the fauna were fossilized and preserved...
This may sound like soap opera, but it is not, for Director Thomas has a way of letting his melodramatic moments flow smoothly into the stream of life. Sexual misadventures are part of that flow, but so is the family dog's being discovered by the movies (Thomas casts him as the pooch romping on the beach at the end of A Man and a Woman), an uncle whose credentials for believing he is an expert on women consist mostly of the fact that his wife deserted him, a grandfather who has the wisdom to tell...
...North (Holt, Rinehart & Winston). Here the fables are turned: women rescue men, outwit demons and fight like Cossacks. Tatterhood, named for her ragged, mud-stained clothes, batters a gang of wicked trolls and recaptures the severed head of her sister. An old Japanese woman, paddling along a stream, thinks quickly when pursuing monsters suck up all the water: she tosses them some fish and the monsters have to release the stream water to eat them. Another heroine, a woodcutter's daughter, claims her prince by washing out three unremovable stains-a theme that could strike some feminists...
...farms and our business affairs," and Amy, 13, "is going to a very good school about 20 minutes away." In fact, the former President seems downright hooked on Plains living. Says Jimmy: "I do not feel under any pressure -except to be in a good north Georgia trout stream now that it's fishing season...
...which time he keeps a diary of his activities and symptoms. Doctors then analyze both sets of data. If previously unsuspected and potentially dangerous rhythms are detected they can then be treated with either drugs or pacemakers. Introduced in the late 1950s, pacemakers regulate the heartbeat through a steady stream of electrical impulses. Nearly a million people now rely on implanted devices, which last from six to twelve years...