Word: undergrowth
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Scene switches to jungle. Jungle? I think I may be going mad. Apparently outside Cassadine lair. Couple asleep in the undergrowth. Young. Trendy. First on line to buy tickets for an E.L.O. concert? No, they have come to rescue a friend, Scorpio, who is in Cassadine's clutches. They are Luke and Laura. Apparently account for the show's "youth appeal." Luke wears a shirt with cutoff sleeves and a gold chain. Laura is illegitimate daughter of Dr. Lesley Webber. Dr. Rick Webber adopted her when he married her mother but now Rick and Lesley are divorced. Pity...
...successful was the adaptation that it elbowed Beaumarchais' prose off the stage. In brushing away the encrustations of age and restoring the original to us. Epstein and Leib have unearthed no new themes; they have instead uncovered a wealth of satiric ornamentation, the angry undergrowth of the author's mind, that either was cut for the opera or lost its punch in Italian...
...Hawaii, and the misconceptions over ERA were incredible," says Alice Ball, president of the Oahu YWCA. "I wish I could bring those people over to Hawaii to see how well it's working. ERA doesn't solve everything, but it has cleared out some of the undergrowth...
...State laws have traditionally formed not just an undergrowth but a lush jungle of archaic restrictions, limitations and protections based on the 19th century notion of a female as the dependent property of a father or husband. In Georgia, the legislature has stubbornly refused to repeal an 1863 law that defines a woman's legal existence as "merged in the husband." In Arizona, insurance companies may still cancel a divorced woman's insurance (but not a man's) on the grounds of "instability...
Even in the final moments, when he had run as long and as far as he could, the fugitive still did not quit. As he heard them coming, crashing through the undergrowth, he lay on the ground and covered himself with leaves. Unerringly, a young bloodhound named Sandy sniffed him out. "James, are you all right?" asked Guard Sammy Joe Chapman. There was a pause. "I'm all right," replied James Earl...