[Owner]: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage! [Mr. Praline]: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

The appearance of flaw polynyas and of coastal polynyas, in the absence of landfast ice, depends on the direction and duration of off-ice and offshore (i.e., from the shore) wind, and also on the orientation of the ice boundary relative to the wind direction. Polynyas present extensive areas of tens to hundreds of kilometers of open water or young ice up to 30 cm thick forming between landfast ice and drifting ice.

Like thieves, square johns are a shrinking proportion of the American inmate population.

Lloyd's Prayer was developed at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, where you'd expect it to have gotten a good dramaturgical going-over.