Word: cactus
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...Border Cafe fails. Perhaps this is in reality another nod in Baja's favor. Located in the increasingly yuppified South End, Baja benefits from decor that is unabrasively funky. The windows and the bar are framed by red plastic chile lights, sombreros grace the walls and bright green cactus sculptures are sunk into cavities in the walls. Triangular flags pushing tequila brands are a tribute to kitsch, but the gestalt works well, set off under a trendy corrugated tin roof. The TV at one end of the bar and the gravelly sound of Louis Armstrong add to the user-friendly...
Zane talks to his rocking horse, whom the family named Cactus. "Cactus, my mom can't come home...
...hard to find. In the early '80s, while he and his buddies were roaming the sparsely populated beaches of the Baja Peninsula, Collins began spinning out his first crude forecasts, downloading satellite weather maps in the middle of the desert with the help of an antenna strung from a cactus, a short-wave radio and a portable fax machine. In 1985 he helped set up Surfline, a Huntington Beach, Calif., firm that distributes daily wave forecasts at a charge of $1.50 to those who call its 900-976-SURF hot line. So accurate are Collins' forecasts that two years...
...sunbathing by her pool. Meier took her up to this promontory and asked her to point out her house. She gazed about. "I can't see it right now," she said, "but I know it's out there somewhere." The vantage point was turned into a cactus garden whose spines would discourage the feet of the prurient...
...lion cub and his struggle to take his rightful place as king of beasts. Her long, dark hair pulled back and an intense expression on her face, Taymor is trying to work out some kinks in the Hakuna Matata number, which ends the first act. The pop-up cactus plants need to inflate sooner. The "bug boxes" that roll across the stage, displaying grubworms, spiders and other crawly creatures, are moving too slowly. More troublesome, the number lacks a little oomph at the end. She tells Max Casella, who plays Timon the meerkat, to try some twirls and flourishes...