Word: cactus
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...these customary elements were present at last night’s festivities, though the revelers had a bit of trouble hanging the cactus-shaped pi?...
Carrasco, despite his disappointment at not having felled the mighty cactus, said the event successfully captured the essence of the posada as “a religious tradition that generates a sense of community...
...liquid or grain. One company raised the roof of a McDonald's to conceal some antennas. Another stashed wireless gear inside signs for BP stations and Red Roof Inns. The camouflage unit of Valmont Industries, based in Omaha, Neb., received a request for a 115-ft. saguaro cactus, which would have been triple the plant's natural height. "You'd turn around and run if you saw something like that," says the company's tree specialist, Jim Casqueiro. The solution: split the coverage area and build two 50-footers instead...
...what really matters for Finlay are the stories behind a color: the thieves who conspired to steal the secret ingredients of an exquisite shade or the purple ooze of a rare sea snail or the red cochineal beetle that feeds off cactus. She traces why red ocher is sacred among Australian Aborigines, then jumps over to Renaissance Italy to muse on the unique blood-orange varnish that Stradivarius used to anoint his violins. Along the way, we learn that NapolEon could have died of arsenic poisoning from green wallpaper then in vogue. We are also taught that bureaucratic red tape...
...Away, he wistfully croons, "In space it's always 1982," referring to the peak of his popularity. But the music feels like a collection of eerie sound effects in search of a memorable tune to adorn. On the covers, Neil Young's I've Been Waiting for You and Cactus, a song by '80s post-punk band the Pixies, the futuristic soundscapes complement good, straightforward rock songs that provide what the album desperately needs: energy...