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Nonetheless, (1) the low motility of females, and the fact that they live mostly on long-lived woody plants, means that maternal kin may interact over long timescales, as in social insects; (2) some scale insects appear to make relatively sophisticated social decisions about where to settle, settling nearer to (and thus possibly competing more closely with) non-kin than kin (Kasuya 2000); (3) although most scale insects use phloem sap, an almost inexhaustible resource, armored scales use parenchyma tissues (Rosen 1990), which may be locally exhausted, and therefore may compete against neighbors for food.
the nut of the oak usu. seated in or surrounded by a hard woody cupule of indurated bracts.
) The end of the picture, a breather where Woody and Buzz take a moment to go over what has happened to them, feels like the end of a John Ford movie, and has a wonderful ease.
Critical response to Woody Allen's cult of celebrity sendup is all over the map.
German director Volker Schlöndorff ( The Tin Drum ) tries his hand at film noir, but most critics say he should stick to "adapting serious literary works" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). They complain that his film--about an ex-con (Woody Harrelson) who falls for the wife (Elisabeth Shue) of a dying millionaire--overdoes the shadowy lighting and complicated plot twists of the genre.