Word: woodenness
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Down a dirt road, amid rolling hills of alfalfa, Larry and Madonna Sorell's 40-acre spread looks, smells and sounds like any other Kansas homestead. The weathered wooden farmhouse. The whiff of manure. The cacophony of grunting, gobbling and bleating. But the livestock at Lazy S Farms are no ordinary farm animals. Rooting about in the fields are Red Wattle pigs, a breed thought to have been imported from New Caledonia in the 1700s and practically extinct until a wild herd surfaced in Texas. The turkeys are Standard American Bronzes, which were Thanksgiving fare for more than a century...
...possess black magic that renders them impervious to bullets, have massacred entire Madurese villages, dismembering their victims and eating them. In the town of Sambas, he finds Dayaks cooking human thighs over a fire. One man offers him a chunk of human meat?"gray, fibrous"?impaled on a wooden stick like a kebab. Lloyd Parry refuses, but he can't stop himself from asking the essential question. The answer is predictably gruesome: it's delicious, they say. Like chicken...
...film begins in the soot and bustle of an old European city, with a design scheme both grim and dapper: even the evil blobs who chase Howl wear straw hats. The castle, which treads back roads on four Seussian legs, is a spectacular jumble of ship parts, old wooden houses and gigantic barrels. Palaces and shimmering lakes, warplanes and fire sprites all come to life at the breath of Miyazaki's graphic genius...
...canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle boat along the Ke Sat River, Nguyen Van Hon operates a floating sundries distributorship. The wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5? each. Hon's first stop of the day is Xa Nhon village, where he ties up and makes deliveries...
Carter found the mummy encased in a series of coffins, with the mask, pictured at left, resting over the mummy's face. Today the mummy lies in a sand-filled wooden tray that Carter had built...