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...botany. A sort of stop-start rhythm develops. "Eek!" jostle, click. "Eek!" bustle, click. I can just about make out what all the fuss is about. The banyan does have four roots that could be legs and a longer one that might be a trunk. But where's the tail? Or the tusks? Or the ears? On the other hand, it is a spitting image compared with "the tree that is a forest," another banyan, meant to be some sort of arboreal Hydra. Frankly, it's going to take hallucinations of Herculean proportions to get that...
...FREEING THE SUB The sub has sunk 3 ft. to 6 ft. into the silty bottom. Salvagers intend to lift the tail of the sub first in hopes of breaking the suction...
...abstracted mode that I trailed a Tony Rizzo "Trophy Tail" - consisting of "pulsating spinner, breathing marabou, and life-like squid tail," altogether a hideously succulent mouthful of black rubber glinting here and there with sequins and harboring a cluster of deadly and barely noticeable hooks - across central Ontario's Elephant Lake yesterday, running the boat at that rapid trolling speed that gives muskies an appetite and the impulse to lunge...
...crisis in gondola making is only part of a larger problem. "There are other kinds of boats that people don't even know how to make anymore," he says, referring to craft like the peata and the batea con la coda di gambero (boat with the shrimp's tail), both once used for transporting goods. "Those who knew how to make them closed down, and no one has replaced them...
...Finally, up on the block in Brunei: Hundreds of "European" sofas made of buttery soft leather, one of which is shaped like the tail end of a Cadillac...