Word: flocks
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There is an inverse relationship between the size of Koetsu's work and the scale of his cultural resonance. These tiny, fugitive-looking images, in which luminous fragments of nature?pines bowing before a wind, the undulation of a flock of cranes?were painted in colored inks on handmade paper by his collaborator Tawaraya Sotatsu and then written over by Koetsu, have acquired, for Japanese taste, the sort of cardinal importance that a fresco cycle or an altarpiece might have for ours. Koetsu's work, given the accumulated Japanese reactions to it, is perhaps the ultimate example of the power...
...Charlottes swarming Harvard are most likely the pretty pearl girls who flock to the Bee. The club has certain standards which prevent the hive from collapsing, namely that the members are beautiful, exclusive and obsessed with twin sets (last year one member boasted that she owned more than 30 of them). Girls tend to resent them but the guys all love them--and the same goes for Charlotte on the show...
Despite the restrictions, students continue to flock to the gleaming new dining halls...
...will the people of Serbia react? Will they flock to the streets to defend their votes or will they allow Milosevic to cheat them once more? This remains the biggest variable in the Yugoslav political equation. After the opposition failed in several attempts to mount massive protests in the past year, many in Yugoslavia are pessimistic. Some analysts, on the other hand, point out that the Milosevic power structure is much less homogeneous than usually assumed. They assert that the people will not sit calmly in the face of clear electoral fraud and notice that the Serbian pro-democracy movement...
WebSwap, on the other hand, lets folks mail one another directly. It's the biggest barter site on the Web, with people hawking everything from a half-full bottle of Prell to a flock of sheep. I listed a dozen items, including the latest Patricia Cornwell thriller, a Beatles CD and three Star Trek movies, but for some reason I couldn't manage a single trade in a month. (During the same time, I traded five CDs on MrSwap.) Part of the problem could be that WebSwap requires a one-for-one swap with whoever wants your stuff, making...