Word: uprootings
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Fate would once again uproot all of James Chung's plans...
...scratch a rectangle in the northern Arizona desert. Beneath this sandy soil her ancestors for five generations have buried the umbilical cords of their newborn, a ritual affirmation of their link to this harsh and haunting land. Today, however, a land dispute with a neighboring tribe threatens to uproot Blackgoat and more than 10,000 other Navajo in a U.S. Government eviction unrivaled since the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans during World...
Forest rangers estimate that about 40 separate teams of treenapers are operating a $15 million-a-year black market in Colorado's renowned aspens. After the winter's last snowfall, but while the aspens are still dormant, the bandits uproot them and sell them to nurseries and landscapers for between $10 and $15 apiece, or door to door for up to $45. An industrious team can harvest as many as 30,000 saplings in a season. Who wants them? Says Forest Service Spokesman Hank Deutsch: "I guess a clump of aspen is a desirable attraction for people's yards...
...trees, the MDC at one time tried to uproot all the sycamores lining my lovely banks to construct an underpass for Memorial Dr. Which would you prefer to see? In deference to the MDC, they have started planting Japanese cherry trees closer to the Basin, but why can't they haul some of those undeveloped fruit stands up this...
...part of a Soviet spy ring. But Pack of Lies, a West End hit now on Broadway, is only secondarily about espionage. As in his play and film Stevie, a small masterpiece that starred Glenda Jackson, Whitemore is more interested in private drama: the anguish of having to uproot one's bedrock beliefs about people, the calamity that results when global politics intrude on quiet lives...