Word: treeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slips through her fingers. (Girls--can't they do anything?) James Caan, as Arnold's boss, nicely gauges the power and menace of a G-man too long in the game; when he says the word patriotism, it sounds like "paid treason." Schwarzenegger, of course, is a paid tree trunk. And for the first time in a while, his character is as solid as he is. Welcome back...
...camera was in love with him, as long as he moved. And silent-film star Douglas Fairbanks was the man who put the movies in motion. He climbed trees, rain spouts, a snake charmer's rope, a church facade. (Take the stairs? What's the fun in that?) And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft. away. Doug was a whiz with a rapier, a whip, a bola. He could somersault off a horse, trampoline from one speeding car to another...
...telltale substances in a salt clinched the new finding: tartaric acid and resin from the terebinth tree. Tartaric acid occurs in large amounts only in grapes, and terebinth resin was a wine preservative used all over the ancient Near East up through Roman times...
...early projects outlined by the 1978 renewal plan included the restoration of the Lechmere Canal and the creation of a 16-acre park around the canal. The mall's food court now opens directly onto the tree-lined circular end of the canal, complete with a fountain...
...Graham] redesigned the dining hall [and] added new carpets, a new fountain and landscaping this summer. There are new lights, new floors," Cahn says. "Apparently, the House was dingy before. Now there's a tree swing. People seem to take more pride in the House as a result...