Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to the usual hamburger joints, pizza places, sandwich shops and egg roll expresses, tasty and sometimes innovative eateries abound, providing ample food for thought...
...beaches. Ferries to Martha's Vineyardand Nantucket leave daily. A trip to the islandsrequires a little planning, some extra cash, ahard to get reservation and a tolerance fortourists but it's well worth the effort. Whitesand, clear surf and gray-shingled cottages withwidow's walks on the rooves all abound on theislands...
Other allergies abound, including one surprisingly associated with the aids epidemic: sensitivity to latex gloves, which are being worn in increasing numbers by health workers to guard against infection by the deadly virus. Latex, it seems, contains an allergen that can produce reactions as drastic as anaphylactic shock in allergy-prone people...
...happens that Lovett, 34, is a gentle Texan who dedicated his first album to "Mom and Dad." His songs abound in comic irony: I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You, She's No Lady (She's My Wife) and the antic, bluesy Here I Am, which won this country singer a 1989 Grammy. The wit, merging Larry Gatlin's folksy humor with Randy Newman's city sickness, cued you that Lovett was not to be mistaken for the losers in his Lone Star gothic laments...
Wertenbaker rarely stoops to the cliches that abound in the Australian productions, platitudes which are generally crafted for American consumption. For good measure, the audience is favored with a gratuitous glimpse of the Aborigine as a Noble Savage, revealed in appropriately lyrical phraseology: "A giant canoe drifts on the sea, clouds billowing from upright oars. This is a dream which has lost its way." Despite such instances of garish scriptwriting, Our Country's Good succeeds in being a masterpiece of realism...