1.organized or designed to promote agricultural interestsgrowing season2.place where rivers descend in falls or rivers from a piedmont to a plainartisan3.land at the foot of a mountainpiedmont4.one trained in some mechanic art or tradefall line5.a land drained by a river and its tributariesagrarian6.the period between the last killing frost in the spring and the first killing frost in the fallsod7.soil filled with the roots of grass, herbs, and so forthdrainage basin

the characters in string all have major secrets that they strive to avoid revealing throughout the play.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

wow there were a thousand people in the concert. that’s great