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She convinces her father to travel abroad using his garden gnome; she helps her neighbor that is an outcast and lonely painter and the super that misses her unfaithful husband; she also helps her hypochondriac colleague that works in the tobacco shop and the man that stalks the other waitress acting like cupid; she plays pranks to an employer that mistreats his employee with abusive relationship.
The plot isn't bad: A 'Little Red Riding Hood' serial killer stalks men (for an idiotic reason, you'll find out by the end) on a New England college campus, stabbing them to death and filling their stomachs with stone.
eastman is perfectly cast as the mad cannibal who stalks a boatload of tourists on an island.i
Films about identical twins are always interesting, especially when they are so gorgeous your two eyes are out on stalks looking both ways at once.
Someone who he captured in the past also stalks him.
Meanwhile, a bookstore owner stalks and knives a wino.
The bookstore owner stalks and knives another wino.
One by one he patiently stalks each member of the band and cunningly turns their barbaric superstitions and brutish natures against them.
The American HangoverNEW YORK – As turmoil stalks America’s financial markets and protests fill its streets, Americans’ lifestyle choices are evolving in a telling way: once seen by the rest of the world as an exuberant teenager – the globe’s extrovert, exporter of rock ’n’ roll and flashy Hollywood movies – Americans are now becoming decidedly withdrawn, or at least inward-looking.
To survive, many North Koreans forage for edible roots and leaves and make soups from cabbage stalks and vegetable waste.
Famine and Hope in the Horn of AfricaNAIROBI – Yet again, famine stalks the Horn of Africa.
Nor is it likely that much economic expansion will result from competition between multinational food distributors and producers in countries where famine still stalks the land.
Bad history also stalks the relationship between Japan and South Korea – a particularly revealing case, given how closely their strategic interests align.
While my wheat stalks are sprouting on schedule, I now fear that at harvest time – in November – prices will fall and I won’t recoup my costs.
The temptation to cut long-term investment in economic hard times stalks the private sphere as well.
Twice he saw them on his approach tumble down in the midst of a field, where the motionless stalks afterwards remained dead.
These polyparies were sticking to rocks, shells of mollusks, and even the stalks of water plants.
There were cresses, horseradish, turnips, and lastly, little branching hairy stalks, scarcely more than three feet high, which produced brownish grains.
"I may say, Pencroft, that the bark of the bamboo, cut into flexible laths, is used for making baskets; that this bark, mashed into a paste, is used for the manufacture of Chinese paper; that the stalks furnish, according to their size, canes and pipes and are used for conducting water; that large bamboos make excellent material for building, being light and strong, and being never attacked by insects.
"I will also add that the pith of the young stalks, preserved in vinegar, makes a good pickle."
Gideon Spilett was at first surprised at the odor which exhaled from certain plants with straight stalks, round and branchy, bearing grape-like clusters of flowers and very small berries.
The reporter broke off one or two of these stalks and returned to the lad, to whom he said,--"What can this be, Herbert?""Well, Mr. Spilett," said Herbert, "this is a treasure which will secure you Pencroft's gratitude forever."
It was just the time of year, the turning-point of summer, when the result of that year's harvest becomes assured, when the autumn sowings have to be considered and when the hay harvest is close at hand; when the grey-green rye waves its formed but as yet not swollen ears lightly in the wind; when the green oats, with irregular clumps of yellow grass interspersed, stand unevenly on late-sown fields; when the early buckwheat spreads out and hides the ground; when the fallow land trodden as hard as a stone by the cattle, is half-ploughed, with here and there long strips omitted as too hard for the plough; when the smell of dried heaps of manure in the fields mingles with the honeyed perfume of the grasses; and waiting for the scythe, the lowland meadows lie smooth as a lake by the river's banks, showing here and there black heaps of weeded sorrel stalks.
It was trying only when thought became necessary in order to mow around a molehill or a space where the hard sorrel stalks had not been weeded out.
It was a little before the great rains just now mentioned that I threw this stuff away, taking no notice, and not so much as remembering that I had thrown anything there, when, about a month after, or thereabouts, I saw some few stalks of something green shooting out of the ground, which I fancied might be some plant I had not seen; but I was surprised, and perfectly astonished, when, after a little longer time, I saw about ten or twelve ears come out, which were perfect green barley, of the same kind as our European—nay, as our English barley.
This touched my heart a little, and brought tears out of my eyes, and I began to bless myself that such a prodigy of nature should happen upon my account; and this was the more strange to me, because I saw near it still, all along by the side of the rock, some other straggling stalks, which proved to be stalks of rice, and which I knew, because I had seen it grow in Africa when I was ashore there.
Besides this barley, there were, as above, twenty or thirty stalks of rice, which I preserved with the same care and for the same use, or to the same purpose—to make me bread, or rather food; for I found ways to cook it without baking, though I did that also after some time.
I have mentioned that I had saved the few ears of barley and rice, which I had so surprisingly found spring up, as I thought, of themselves, and I believe there were about thirty stalks of rice, and about twenty of barley; and now I thought it a proper time to sow it, after the rains, the sun being in its southern position, going from me.
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