Word: twig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films, a shorthand typist, a paint stripper, a bric-a-brac salesman at the Chelsea antique market, and an interior decorator. He has also been unemployed. But all that was before he met a pencil-thin 15-year-old named Lesley Hornby and said: "You're like a twig. I'll call you Twiggy...
...daughters, as Pa (Robert Donley) himself points out. You're a wrinkled old bastard, she replies in the crisscross of invective that bind the two together. And Furth has made his point. Each of the women is her mother's daughter ("Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined," to quote Pope on the matter) and each has won success from life to the extent to which she has found a man willing to endure her weaknesses. Or strengths, as they...
...contrived gloom of The Bronx Zoo's "World of Darkness," badgers ramble into burrows and kit foxes scurry over "desert." In the new Milwaukee Zoo, tigers in craggy caves stare across camouflaged moats at antelope. These are no mere frills. "A bird that needs a vertical twig for a particular part of its courtship, or a reptile that requires cyclical temperature change, is more likely to reproduce when the proper ecological furniture is provided," explains Bronx Zoo Director William Conway...