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...Side, where they gather a few spoonfuls of earth to unite with the earth back home. Using interlinked belts and a pot, they pull up a sample of East River water to bless. Manhattan thrums at their backs, and they say they can feel the strength of the river. "Sumac. Sumac. Sumac," says Don Martin. "Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangers in a Land Of Strange Mountains | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...approved IvyBlock, the first drug that can guard against POISON IVY, SUMAC and OAK. The over-the-counter lotion binds with plant allergens, preventing them from penetrating the skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 9, 1996 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...really a wilderness animal. They are an edge-of-civilization critter. Deep snow and deep forest defeat them. They gobble insects in the warm months, occasionally in the median strips of rural interstate highways. But they get through winters, or don't, foraging for barberries, rose hips, wild apples, sumac, juniper, sedges and fern. What they really like is corn wastage at winter-bound dairy farms and sunflower seeds policed from beneath suburban bird feeders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOBBLING OF AMERICA | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...year), to the stagehands (who wear Acme Movers coveralls, then tuxedos, then jogging suits, as the scenic occasion demands). The cast is collectively splendid, with star-making performances by the two leads. Rose hits every mood, from rue to despair, with perfect pitch, like a manic-depressive Yma Sumac; and Banes, sharp and upscale sexy, looks ready to become an off-or on-Broadway Streep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Broadway's Big Endearment | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...they were joined to her head. There was something complete about them; you knew they were there for keeps. When you're a private eye, you want things to stay put." Later, in Yma Dream, Thomas Meehan offers a Carrollian nightmare in which the Misses Chaplin, Sumac, Gardner, Gabor, et al., and the Messrs. Eban, Ehrenburg, Betti, etc., are introduced to Miss Hagen, the actress: "Uta, Yma; Uta, Ava; Uta, Oona; Uta, Ona; Uta, Ida; Uta, Ugo; Uta, Abba; Uta, Ilya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laughing Matter | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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