Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Acid rain. A Harvard study last March found that some rain over Boston reaches the acidity of battery acid. Sixty thousand lakes in North America are threatened. President Bush stated in a campaign speech that "the time for action on clean air and acid rain is now." The Clean Air Act of 1990 would do something about this problem (the 1977 act did not), but the President says he may veto...
...alliterative, and highly allusive language. Plagiarizing from sources as varied as Joyce, Shakespeare, and the slang of fifties Americana, they wend their way through the kaleidoscopic landscape of "Terra Incognita," a territorial hybrid of the 19th century African Congo and the Land of the Blue Meanies from the Beatles' acid-crazed 1967 animation, "Yellow Submarine." This land is to be imagined rather than perceived: at the playwright's behest the set is relatively sparse...
...meters (394 ft.) across, 10 times smaller than anything ever seen before. That should be enough to begin answering some important questions about the geology and atmosphere of the planet. Although nearly the same size as Earth, Venus has an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. These gases have created an atmospheric pressure at the surface 90 times that of Earth and led to a greenhouse effect that keeps the temperature at 470 degrees C (900 degrees F), hot enough to melt lead and ensure that liquid water cannot exist...
...asked after all my old enemies. Colonel Goosen? Dead. Colonel Van der Merwe? Retired. Captain Hansen? Transferred. Captain Schoeman? Somewhere up- country. I already knew that Lieut. Jan Marais, who had once mailed an acid-tainted T shirt to my five-year-old daughter Mary, had been found drowned in his own swimming pool...
...efforts to become a published writer never panned out. He was too busy living his autobiography to write it. For this reason he entered modern folklore through the eyes of others, his adventures fictionalized or romanticized. By the time he appears in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as the bus driver for Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, he is an aging parody of himself. Carolyn Cassady does not allow this to happen in her book. Even when she is describing her former husband at his most impossible, she never totally forgets the possibilities of his youth...