Word: tree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only major character in the original movies who didn't fit into a tidy little box. He wasn't pure good or pure evil. He was the anti-establishment good guy. He was sarcastic; he was crass; he was human. He didn't have a weird family tree. No "Han, I am your father" for him. He didn't even have any fun Jedi powers. He just had a junky ship, a blaster and a bunch of one-liners. Fisher recently confessed in Newsweek that "I had a crush on Mr. Ford before it became a trend." If that ship...
...weekend, crews were still sifting rubble for four missing persons. Mostly the searchers turned up not corpses but the mere record of lives: a half-buried checkbook, a Christmas-tree stand, a little red wagon crushed under a beam. In Del City, Monica Hicks wandered the vacant lot that had been her home and remarked, "I knew it would be bad, but I didn't prepare myself for this. My three-year-old said, 'Mommy, the tornado ate our house.'" Hicks spotted a pink plastic Cadillac on the ground with a doll at the wheel and broke into a loopy...
...have technical talent," says Tracy Koon, director of corporate affairs at Intel. The need for technical expertise is so pervasive that even retailers are demanding such skills. "Company-wide, we're looking for students with specific information-systems skills," says David McDearmon, director of field human resources at Dollar Tree Stores. "Typically we shy away from independent-college students who don't have them...
...children, The Giving Tree is a metaphor for unrequited parental love. For adults, it has been interpreted as a everything from a religious parable to a cynical look at adulthood. A symposium on the book was held in 1995, where distinguished scholars debated the book's underlying meaning...
...Giving Tree is just one example of how Silverstein's work for children was embraced by children and adults alike. And this is what made him a master. In 1975, Silverstein told Publisher's Weekly, "I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick up one and experience a personal sense of discovery...