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PICTURE MICHAEL Jackson at the helm of the Millenium Falcon with a crew of Snuffalupagusesque space-doofs--Two things that look like shrunken, tie-dyed Abominable Snowmen, another furry critter with a farting. trumpet-trunk nose (Is flatulence comedy's equivalent of Esperanto?), and a butterfly-winged, cute-as-hell koala that looks like a cross between Tinkerbell and John Madden...
...products is marked with blue tags on the shelves." The same system is used for low-cholesterol and low-calorie diets. As at many supermarkets, Byerly's employees will place customers' groceries in their autos, but on those rare occasions when the wrong bags are put in the trunk, the right goods are delivered directly to a shopper's door, along with a free cake or other goody by way of apology...
...plants; about 13,000 species of insects, including 3,140 species of moths and butterflies; about 100 species of reptiles and amphibians and 115 species of mammals. Among the trees is the project's namesake, the guanacaste, whose branches can stretch over an acre of land and whose trunk soars 100 ft. Spider, howling and white-faced monkeys swing through the forest canopy. White-tailed deer and peccaries (a kind of wild pig) forage in the underbrush. Jaguars, ocelots, coyotes and gray foxes roam the woods at night. Ridley turtles nest on the park's Pacific beaches. Says Janzen: "Virtually...
...though it were on a stage. The piece bears the title of one of Houdini's most famous tricks: Metamorphosis. Re-enacted time after time, the routine by now is familiar. The magician's assistant is handcuffed and placed in a sack, which is tied and put into a trunk. The trunk is in turn secured with locks and chains. The magician, standing atop the trunk, briefly raises a curtain. Abracadabra. Suddenly, the magician's assistant stands in the place of the magician -- and when the trunk is unlocked, it is the magician who pops out of the sack, hands...
...fact. Dealing with the "difficult bottle-green hue" of his famous motif, the cypress (of which the real landscape around Saint-Remy is now disappointingly short), he went to great trouble to set forth the realities inside its hairy, obelisk-like silhouette: the mauve cast of shadow on the trunk and branches, the sparks of almost pure chrome within the enfolding darkness of its leaves...