Word: slithering
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...Fanning also fielded questions at the premiere. The young star of Charlotte's Web and Dreamer said the toughest scene for her to film was not the rape, but one in which rattlesnakes slither into her bed: "Some of those twitches were real...
...hold until his wife and two small children have buried him. He was, after all, a television personality, not a president. It is true that he was sometimes criticized by conservationists and wildlife experts. Some claimed his handling of animals caused them stress, though the reptiles seemed content to slither off afterward into the bush, perhaps for counseling. Others questioned the wisdom of his campaigns against the culling of crocodiles, or the fact that he maintained a zoo, which was considered exploitative and anachronistic in some eyes...
...hold until his wife and two small children have buried him. He was, after all, a television personality, not a president. It is true that he was sometimes criticized by conservationists and wildlife experts. Some claimed his handling of animals caused them stress, though the reptiles seemed content to slither off afterward into the bush, perhaps for counseling. Others questioned the wisdom of his campaigns against the culling of crocodiles, or the fact that he maintained a zoo, exploitative and anachronistic in some eyes...
...Salvador Dali had fashioned the moon, its surface might look something like the skate park in Sayreville, N.J. Undulating concrete bowls flow toward one another like bumping wombs. Ribboning "snake runs" slither around steel-pipe rails and abrupt concrete boxes. If it all seems like a dreamscape, that's because it is. This is the kind of place that skateboarders dream about. Steve Lenardo, 32, a physical-education teacher who also co-owns the local skate shop, comes down here a lot with his board. "It keeps my blood flowing," he says. "There's always something new to try, always...
...Crack, craack, craaaack," booms the sound through the rain forest. As the yellow 60-ton bulldozers smash ahead, one 70-ft. okoume tree after another trembles, then teeters and finally topples. With each fall, the jungle itself seems to shiver: venomous black and green mambas slither to safety through walls of vines; gorillas caper away in terror; mauve, violet and golden butterflies settle like confetti on the dozers, or bulls, as the workers call them. Finally, as dusk settles in, a single tree remains in the clearing, a majestic 120-ft. hardwood. Their 450-h.p. engines screaming, shrouded in black...