Word: thicket
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...crown jewel of the show, though, is a Van Gogh called The Thicket done shortly before he took his own life. Although the catalogue emphasizes the painting's lack of "tragic import," there is a sense of tragedy in the painting if one views the forest as the paradise which evaded Van Gogh during his life. The catalog also states that there is no entry into this forest scene, but under close observation a path can be detected between two trees. The two trees seem to beckon to the viewer, conveying the idea that within the most destitute mind lies...
...great beast seems to materialize out of the dusk -- a striped vision of might and mystery. Emerging from a thicket in southern India's Nagarahole National Park, the Bengal tigress is hungry and ready to begin another night's hunt. To nourish her 500-lb. body, she must kill a sambar deer, a boar or some other big animal every week of her adult life. Fortunately for her, Nature has given tigers the prowess to prey upon creatures far larger than the cats are. Her massive shoulders and forelimbs can grip and bring down a gaur, a wild, oxlike animal...
Shortly after midnight on a balmy June night, she said, she and the Evers' three young children, who had waited up after listening to President Kennedy give a speech on civil rights, heard Medgar's Oldsmobile pull into the driveway. Then a rifle fired from a honeysuckle thicket some 200 ft. away. Myrlie ran to the door and saw her 37-year-old husband, bloody and dying, slump toward the steps, his car keys still in hand. His arms had been laden with T shirts reading jim crow must go. The children ran out, crying "Daddy, Daddy, please...
...ones. So I've had them. Some of it's been fun, because I always think of myself in the image of the fugitave slave. Now I'm doing opera--a libretto that's been commissioned by the San Francisco Opera, so they have to follow me in the thicket of Tosca and all these different operas. I'm writing in Japanese, so they have to learn that...
General Magic's solution is an "intelligent" messaging system called Telescript, which has won the backing of an impressive list of computer and ( communications companies. In Telescript, electronic messages contain little computer programs that can guide the words, sounds or pictures through the thicket of interlocking computer networks. You just slap a name or address on a message and fire it off. Either it goes all the way to the recipient's personal computer (not merely to, say, MCI Mail's computer) or you are alerted that something has gone wrong...