Word: sylvane
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...Sylvan Scene. The plot is wafer-thin. It centers on the idea (a recurring one in Shakespeare) of nobles renouncing the splendor, gaiety and fleshly corruption of the court for a quasi-religious retreat amid the guileless innocence of the countryside. The King of Navarre (David Suchet) proposes to his three attendant lords, Longaville (Robert Ashby), Dumaine (Michael Ensign) and Berowne (Ian Richardson), that they form "a little academe." They pledge to meditate, study, fast, and forswear women. This pledge is scarcely uttered when four devilishly distracting ladies appear on the sylvan scene...
...Soviets suffered a crop shortfall two years ago, they did not slaughter cattle to conserve grain (as they had done in 1963), but instead they imported 28 million tons of corn, wheat and soybeans. So long as the industrial nations continue to favor meat over direct grain consumption, says Sylvan Wittwer, Michigan State University agricultural economist, "the sky is the limit for food demand...
What costs more than the Krupp diamond or a drawing by Rembrandt? Answer: a lonely homestead tucked away in the sylvan woodlands of New Jersey. Though there is nothing so gauche as a FOR SALE sign on the front lawn of this brand-new, Mediterranean-style villa, the hunt is on for a buyer The price tag: a cool...
...lucky. For her hillside treehouse she pumps water from the city main, via a redwood tank on a nearby hill, to a spigot and washbasin on the front porch. For heat she relies on a coal stove once used on a sailing ship. But no matter. Jenefer is a sylvan spirit who lives on simple fare such as grapes, sardines and raw string beans. In fact, her isolation is so great that she worked in the nude while building her two-room redwood shack. Her only complaint is an occasional pang of loneliness: "At times I wish I lived...
...least flavorsome was a sylvan place called Whorehouse Meadows, outside of Ontario, Ore. The meadow was named, with admirable directness, for some local women who once profitably entertained sheepherders there. But last week, the Oregon Geographic Names Board filed an official objection to a bit of bowdlerization by the Federal Bureau of Land Management. It discovered that the bureau, in drawing up a map of the area, had changed the name from Whorehouse Meadows to Naughty Girl Meadows. The bureau also cleaned up a nearby spot, deftly retitling it Bullshirt Springs, a change so small that the natives...