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...Work has something to do with the characters' grappling with their recognition of their place in nature. The lushness and order of nature should be more evident in, the production than they are. The fall from innocence in O'Donnell's Camp Edgewater is a fall into a very thick, green bed of leaves, twigs, gentle fears and sadness. It is not a threatening world or a horrifying one, but a world of fears more perceived than existent (and more internalized than devouring). The camp is a sort of sad paradise, but a paradise just the same. Referring...
Watson's staff prepared inch-thick option papers on such issues as national health insurance, tax reform, the FBI. Watson wanted true options, not advocacy papers. A man to whom the shadings of language are terribly important, he often bounced back reports with blunt notations like: "This is an unsupported essay. Start over...
...that got hopelessly mired in Amazon mud?the progress at Jari is extraordinary. So far, about 185,000 acres, an area more than ten times the size of Manhattan Island, have been cleared and planted with Caribbean pine and Gmelina. Viewed from the air, the new forest looks as thick and lush as the sections of old native jungle left uncut along the riverbanks. A wild array of undergrowth, burnt away in the initial clearing, quickly grows back among the newly planted trees...
Longest Pass in Harvard-Yale game: 27 rows. In 1924, in the thick of Prohibition, Yale student Wally Lipshitz started the alcoholic bucket brigade which eventually saw a half-gallon of Wild Turkey inhaled in 17 minutes...
...purchase of the tract safeguards a wide variety of exotic flora and fauna. Within its boundaries are cypresses so large that eight men can barely join hands around their trunks, huge stands of water tupelo and witch hazel and thick forests of hickory, iron wood and beech. Fish such as the Atlantic sturgeon and crystal darter thrive in the waters of the new preserve, which also provides one of the only known homes of the yellow-blotched sawback turtle, a rare species that sports two humps on its back like a camel...