Word: trout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they all be squeezed into a single, all-purpose package -- a kind of pocket- size portable office -- that would let brokers buy and sell from a restaurant table, lawyers check precedents from a courtroom, doctors check lab results from a golf course, and salesmen close deals from a trout stream? Given the rapid advances in semiconductors, cellular communications and battery-power management, this dream is almost within reach...
...ersatz version to which they have become accustomed. Where once there were forests, now there are tree farms, transmogrified by science into monocultural stands of uniform height and genetic stock. In a word, a crop. Many anglers cast into rivers and lakes devoid of native fish. Stocked European brown trout and transplanted rainbows ply our streams, with native brook and cutthroat trout in retreat. Bighorn sheep and other game herds are shunted about for the hunter's delight...
...popularity of films like Dances with Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans and A River Runs Through It, viewed by urban audiences sitting elbow-to-elbow in the dark. Most will never know what it is to be dwarfed by an old-growth forest, spy brook trout sipping mayflies or hear a wolf howl. For many, such subtle communion has been replaced by the stridency of environmentalism, a full-blown crusade, and by dire appeals on behalf of distant rain forests and a bestiary of endangered species. In these alliances, those remote from nature draw comfort that though embattled...
...Cherry rocks out too. Money Love, the first single released from the album, flexes a kinetic, chunky drumbeat and power guitar riffs. Trout, which despite its ambiguous title is a hymn of praise for sex education in public schools, is set to a booming, get-up-out-of-your-se at hip-hop drum rhythm, with guitars and harmonica added for good measure. On this track Cherry does a snappy duet with R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe, who manages not to embarrass himself while rapping...
...that we didn't want anyone who understood nuclear power in the White House--they wouldn't be afraid of it. Even a year later, we were telling "glow in the dark" jokes. (Some mothers "wore combat boots" in childhood epithets. In our jibes, mothers "fished for three-headed trout in the Susquehanna for dinner...