Word: sylvane
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...eases on over to the hearth, extracts Yellow Dog's tail from the cinders and gently stubs it out like a spent cigar. The pooch barely opens one glazed eye. This scene, briefer than a minute, is a vagrant moment of unforced drollery in Funny Farm's carnival of sylvan horrors...
...empire suddenly looked as frail as King Lear's. So Hollywood is closely watching Lucas' $35 million gamble on Willow. But will moviegoers watch? To a genre weakened by formula and familiarity, Lucas has brought little new, just a reprise of his Star Wars plot and characters in sylvan gear. His Luke Skywalker is Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a dwarf in a community of dwarfs, a young farmer put in charge of the infant who is destined to deliver his land from the terrible rule of Queen Bavmorda (Jean Marsh). On his journey to Castle Nockmaar, he acquires...
...story of China's stunning improvement in farm production is comprehensively told in a new 462-page book called Feeding a Billion (Michigan State University Press; $30). Its authors are Sylvan Wittwer, director emeritus of the Michigan State University Agricultural Experiment Station, and three Chinese farm experts: Professor Sun Han of Nanjing Agricultural University, Professor Yu Youtai of Northeast Agricultural College in Harbin and Wang Lianzheng, vice governor of Heilongjiang province. Wittwer, the principal writer, made five trips to China during the past seven years and received unstinting cooperation from the Communist authorities in undertaking an in-depth study...
What they observe is nothing less than a landscape being reborn. Nature is laboring mightily to transform the scoured flanks of the mountain, its debris- filled river systems and chemically polluted ponds and lakes into a facsimile of the sylvan setting that existed before the eruption. To the untutored eye, the evidence of devastation still seems overwhelming. Scientists, however, see a glass filling itself up slowly but surely. Says James MacMahon, head of the biology department at Utah State University: "It's not a forest yet, but the rate of progress is amazing...
...sylvan setting, cut by a small creek and shady pathways, creates a feeling of retreat and community at the center, says Rose Mary Sheldon, secretary to the director. Visitors are discourages, but determined Harvard sightseers can look around if special arrangements are made with the director's office. "It's just a think tank," says Sheldon. "We try to maintain a quiet atmosphere...