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Denis Johnson could not have chosen a more fitting title for his newest novel, “Tree of Smoke.” The novel is nearly as thick as a tree, reaching the epic length of 614 pages. And those hundreds of pages seem to contain nothing more than smoke.While each sentence, each paragraph, and each page is unapologetically lyrical and unabashedly grand, with a pronounced biblical undercurrent that promises depth, the work lacks substance, lacks true cohesion—lacks whatever it is that makes a work captivating, wonderful, or enjoyable.Despite its promise and its moments of greatness...
...found slaughtered--its antler rack carved out of its head--in the Pinery, a cushy bedroom community a few miles southeast of Denver. In Des Moines, Iowa, two men from Arkansas were convicted of illegally hunting trophy-size deer at the local airport. And poachers with crossbows built a tree stand in a public park in Redwood City, Calif., scattered bait and waited for black-tailed deer to mosey by. "Poachers show no lack of guts. There are no rules they won't break," says Craig Lonneman, a conservation officer with the Iowa division of natural resources. "It always seems...
...depressing verses and sing-along choruses comes from—they get the demons out. Darnielle constantly scans the crowd, making eye contact with everyone, allowing his own joy to spill out over everyone. The show consisted mostly of cuts off his 2005 LP “The Sunset Tree,” as well as some standard crowd pleasers such as “No Children.” Even though “The Sunset Tree” tackles Darnielle’s relationship with an abusive stepfather, the defiance in songs like “This Year?...
...Psycho, Gosling tiptoes on the fine line between innocence and madness. Or rather, he stands still at first, rooted in fear, as if his boots had frozen to the snowy ground. Then he finds Bianca and opens up to his not-quite-living doll. Lying contentedly in an old tree house, with Bianca splayed on the ground below, he warbles a wonderfully strangulated version of the Nat King Cole chestnut L-O-V-E. It's one of the most honest expressions of bliss in modern movies...
...goal: a 10-min. mile (fear not, olympians). Wearing a pair of Nike Plus running shoes, I wind along a tree-covered Oregon trail, glancing at my iPod nano every few strides. I wish that little chip in my Nikes would malfunction. It's telling the nano my pace, and the nano in turn is taunting me: a 10-min. 30-sec. clip, with about another half a mile to go. I sprint--and almost die--near the finish. One mile completed, the nano screen reads. My time: 9min. 42sec. Yes! Cue the Chariots of Fire music...