Word: woven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timelessness of plot that give Walt Disney productions their eternal appeal. Like other recent endeavors to animate fantasy books--Tolkien's The Hobbit, for example--the adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's novel The Last Unicorn fails to capture through animation all the intricacies of plot and description usually woven by words...
Today millions of pilgrims flock to Freeport to visit L.L. Bean's one and only retail outlet. To the catalogue faithful it is a shrine to a Yankee mystique woven from images of integrity, good value and handcrafted quality. Bean's merchandise is not necessarily expensive ($18 for its best button-down striped Oxford-cloth shirts), and it is not elegant. Over the years a kind of reverse chic has attached itself to its sturdy Yankee clothes and shoes: its $40 woodsman's pants, "all wool and a yard wide," say, or the $73 sheepskin-lined boots...
Such gestures constitute normality. In the millions and woven together, they combine to construct what we shyly call civilization, as does the work of the company that makes the pill, the one that packs and distributes it, the Government agency that examines and sanctions it, the store that stocks and sells it, and so forth, all tied together by nettings in which life hangs, as they say, in the balance. Fascinating, how easily that balance can be threatened. Fascinating too how it protects and sustains itself...
...walk beside them after school, they tighten their arms about their books and bend their heads forward to give a more flattering attention to your words, and in the little intimate area thus formed, carved into the clear air by an implicit crescent, there is a complex fragrance woven of tobacco, powder, lipstick, rinsed hair, and that perhaps imaginary and certainly elusive scent that wool, whether in the lapels of a jacket or the nap of a sweater, seems to yield when the cloudless fall sky like the blue bell of a vacuum lifts toward itself the glad exhalations...
...singers, who were not involved, to take positions." Cero al Izquierda's position earned it the trust of FMLA leaders, whose "liberated zone" of Morazan remains in constant danger of attack from the government. This danger, and the tenuous position of the guerillas even in their own stronghold, is woven throughout the second, feature-length film. Decision To Win--The First Fruits...