Word: wood
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Still, no one has yet taken Montana up on its offer to trade grizzly bears, and at least one of the swaps has been a dismal failure. Ohio acquired dozens of Allegheny wood rats, most of them from Kentucky, and released them in the central part of the state. But none of them have survived. Concedes State Wildlife Administrator Denis Case: "This turned out to be an excellent program for feeding great horned owls...
...Dakota Jackson's UFO-shaped Saturn stool (1976) and R.M. Fischer's enormous, intimidating Max lamp (1983) are like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne awaiting a space-age dictator, Dune-style. Bruce Tomb's wood-and-granite propane cookstove (1983-84) seems at once oddly futuristic and jerry-built--in other words, postnuclear...
...thief sans trust fund ends up with his loot. The rich old Social Scientists who set both of them up want to settle the old Nature versus Nurture debate, where Nature means playing the blind beggar to get spending money and Nurture seems to mean stiff suits and wood panelling. It's too predictable to waste time with the ending and too difficult to give Murphy and Ackroyd credit for carrying a tired concept to first-rate comedy...
...ECAC Scoring Name/School G A PT Scott Fusco, Harv. 9 12 21 A. Bourbeau, Harv. 8 10 18 Tim Barakett, Harv. 8 7 15 Bob Logan, Yale 5 8 13 Tim Smith, Harv. 7 5 12 Randy Wood, Yale 7 5 12 Mark Benning, Harv. 1 11 12 J. Nieuwendyk, Corn. 6 5 11 Gerard Waslen, Col. 6 4 10 Greg Drechsel, Col. 5 5 10 Mark Jooris...
...film unfolds with various disjointed shots of Benares and its human and animal inhabitants. A farmer picks orange flowers; strong, muscular bodies chop wood; two men assemble a bamboo ladder; white-robed workers hose down flat stone; holy men chant cryptic chants; a small, squeaky boat glides over the river. Then come the bodies, ushering in with them the audience's epiphany. Bodies covered with orange flowers, bodies over flames, bodies on top of bamboo ladders--suddenly, the disjointed pictorial congeals into a single entity. Death. Everyone in this Hindu society lives and labors for their holy deceased...