Word: tree
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...Have you noticed that Dick Cheney has been walking around with a cane lately? He said that he really didn't need the cane. He just liked the idea that a tree had to be cut down to make it." --JAY LENO...
...look at the big picture. Jeffrey N. Achber Laconia, New Hampshire, U.S. Your editors enhanced the nation's misery index in smashing style with the overwhelming number of pictures that were a stark visualization of ugliness, suffering and pain. Didn't any of your photographers catch a pear tree blossoming? A wren scolding? A schoolboy playing? John F. Waldron Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. Checking Out Bush's Numbers The essay by Patricia Marx, "Check Out My New Numbers," with totally made-up statistics about President Bush [Dec. 19], was a real dud. I have no problem with puzzling over...
...write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction.Of course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point. The artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical...
...when characters aren’t talking, they often just freeze in place until their next line. The most ridiculous example of animator negligence, actually, is a perfect metaphor for the film itself. In one scene, Red falls out of a chairlift and hits a few thin, leafy tree branches on her way down. But instead of bending to her body weight like normal branches, these remain immobile as Red connects with and bounces off of each one with a loud thud. In the same fashion, the Weinstein brothers have found a normally yielding genre to be a lot harder...
Your editors enhanced the nation's misery index in smashing style with the overwhelming number of pictures that were a stark visualization of ugliness, suffering and pain. Didn't any of your photographers catch a pear tree blossoming? A wren scolding? A schoolboy playing? JOHN F. WALDRON Virginia Beach...