Word: trees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break the 30,000-yen barrier sometime this year. Says Hideo Nakazawa, general manager of Nomura's equity department: "We may hit some bumps, but the direction is up." Yet even Tokyo is unlikely to disprove the adage so often cited by bears in markets the world over: "No tree grows...
...noses into plastic nets and rings. Unable to open their jaws, some sea lions simply starve to death. Brown pelicans become so enmeshed in fishing line that they can hang themselves. Says Kathy O'Hara of the Center for Environmental Education in Washington: "We have seen them dangling from tree branches in Florida...
Glass has always been an enthusiastic collaborator, working with Theater Artist Robert Wilson in Einstein on the Beach, fellow Composer Robert Moran in The Juniper Tree and Choreographer Twyla Tharp in In the Upper Room. But 1000 Airplanes may be his most daring ensemble effort yet, involving Chinese- American Playwright David Henry Hwang and Scenic Designer Jerome Sirlin. The trio has produced a science-fiction music drama that is part Freud, part Kafka and part Steven Spielberg...
These are the boys of late autumn, the last leaves on the tree of my youth. Not too many innings ago, there were others: Reggie Jackson; the knuckle-ball brothers, Phil and Joe Niekro; the great lefthanded pitcher Steve Carlton; and journeyman Outfielder Tom Paciorek, kept around last year by a manager who was an old teammate. A few like Paciorek glided gracefully and gratefully into a broadcasting booth. But most went out cursing the darkening of the light. At 43, Carlton, dropped by five different teams in the past two years, defiantly repeats the old ballplayer's mantra...
...constantly exchange weather advisories, news of police activity and bulletins on available work. Jungles often have chairs, kitchenware and neat stone-edged fireplaces. One even has the beginnings of a library, a copy of Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King resting on a rail spike driven into a tree...