Word: leaf
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...Frightened and frenzied, the stallion reared and Felicity fell onto the floor beside Frederick. Stunned, she looked up at the chandelier that was ablaze like molten gold above her. She saw it dimly wobble and fall, slowly, like an autumnal leaf from a tree. The hot crystals splintered all about her in bright glittering shards that pierced her naked skin. She turned and found Frederick and clasped his mutilated corpse in her arms. The flames drew around them like bed curtains: their eternal nuptials...
...take to decorating them and using them as kennels or toolsheds (one illustration shows them as a bright garden of strange, leafless trees under a perfect blue sky). In "Eric," the cultural otherness of a foreign exchange student is given embodiment as a tiny two-dimensional creature with a leaf for a head...
...reading tea leaves. Don't. I don't draw a very good tea leaf." - Dismissing reporters' questions after announcing his first indictment in the Plame scandal (San Francisco Chronicle, October...
...Though a leaf-crunching walk through the woods may be a relaxing forum for exchanging ideas with other department members during a weekend retreat, booking hotel reservations for 300 people for three nights is an example of a cost the department could do without, said department chair Clifford J. Tabin, who added that this year’s retreat will be held in an auditorium on campus...
...ambitious enterprise. Before the show began, the audience was treated to a rendition of John Williams’s distinctive theme song that sounded like it was coming from a first-generation Game Boy. The only scenery consisted of a few fake plants and some cardboard painted with leaf prints. But this minimalism belied Wham City’s enthusiasm: the play brilliantly balanced reverence and irreverence for its source material.The play opened with Dennis Nedry (Benjamin O’Brien), doubled over, pant legs stuffed with padding, lumbering across the stage and gnawing on what seemed...