Word: swamp
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 said that her department is “glad to teach any student who wants to learn economics” but that she and her colleagues are worried that a quick increase in the number of students taking economics could swamp the department’s resources...
...making a film." From its first frames, Ten Canoes announces itself as a film like no other. At bird's-eye level, the camera glides across a watery landscape rarely seen other than by the 800 Yolngu inhabitants of Ramingining. We're in the heart of the Arafura Swamp, and over the alien sounds of chirrups, croaks and slithers, the laughing narration of Gulpilil can be heard describing how the landscape was formed by the Great Water Goanna, Yurlunggur. When De Heer's regular sound designer first saw a three-minute rough-cut, he knew they were on to something...
...thrilling in the making as it is on screen (its filming will be the subject of an SBS documentary, Eighteen Canoes, to be aired close to the film's Australian release in June). For up to seven hours a day, director and crew would wade through thick swamp, with crocodile spotters on platforms above. "It really was the leeches getting you from the waist down; mosquitoes from above the waist," says De Heer, "and they'd be yelling out, There's a big one coming!" Sound designer Currie was confined to the relative safety of a boat, but even here...
...road to perdition. If you want to be able sleep at night with a clear conscious, try to avoid roommates like him. My last roommate is the “messy kid.” While I’ll admit that we all contribute to the swamp that we call our room, this guy is definitely the primary reason we are living in an environment that Oscar the Grouch would envy. Given all the strange growths thriving in our room, it feels like we are living in God’s experimental Petri dish. If you prefer the freedom...
...many times that he finally went on the show and kept up the gag by telling Chase he was a "a very funny... suburb." Jimmy Carter was stalked by the "killer rabbit." In 1979, out fishing near his home in Plains, Georgia, Carter's dinghy was besieged by a "swamp rabbit" familiar in those parts. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell told the story to a reporter and it became immortalized in a front-page Washington Post story and became a metaphor for a timid president...