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  • The cuckoopint is an arum that appears in our woods in April, and is also known as lords-and-ladies, starch-root, Adam-and-Eve, bobbins and Wake Robin.

    The power of spring flowers 2011

  • An Adam-and-Eve couple cavort amorously with a stuffed snake, until the nun barges in and jabs her middle finger at them; they scoot off and, once the coast is clear, she gets cozy with the snake.

    A singular vision: Nearing 80, Paul Taylor is as moving a dance figure as ever 2010

  • In the end, the Adam-and-Eve ending just didn't feel satisfactory to me.

    mikandra: sunday mikandra 2010

  • In the end, the Adam-and-Eve ending just didn't feel satisfactory to me.

    sunday mikandra 2010

  • It's creative writing 101: If you're writing a dystopian science-fiction tale, do not write an Adam-and-Eve ending.

    Epic Reviews: Daybreak Part 2 2009

  • The Adam-and-Eve ending is a terrible sci-fi cliche, even though Rod Serling managed to get away with it in one of his classic Twilight Zone episodes.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • It's creative writing 101: If you're writing a dystopian science-fiction tale, do not write an Adam-and-Eve ending.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • The Adam-and-Eve ending is a terrible sci-fi cliche, even though Rod Serling managed to get away with it in one of his classic Twilight Zone episodes.

    Epic Reviews: Daybreak Part 2 2009

  • Why are youthful indiscretions off-limits for one candidate, but relevant and damning in that Adam-and-Eve kind of way for another?

    Dee Dee Myers: The Free-Pass Sexism of the Hillary-Hate Brigade: Dee Dee Myers Myers, Dee Dee 2008

  • The Adam-and-Eve issue resonates from the get-go when Adam and Evelyn-get it?

    Women On Top In LaBute's Latest 1999

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