Word: amazon
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Everything important in A Handful of Dust is in the film: Brenda's almost somnambulistic descent into adultery; Tony's puttering obsession with his awful hereditary home; the death of their child, the tragedy that brings them to crisis; Tony's final flight up the Amazon toward the novel's immortal conclusion. James Wilby's Tony is stoically wet, and the subtlety of Kristin Scott Thomas' charmlessness as Brenda is awesome. But the malice, as well as the compressed energy of the novel, is beyond Sturridge and Granger. Waugh moved us to tears; this adaptation invites only respect...
...might at first be disappointed that the show's chronological reach ends in the early 5th century, just as sculpted form is approaching the perfected classical style. Several works, however, look ahead to that style and even beyond it: the overlapping figures of the hero Theseus carrying off the Amazon queen Antiope, in a broken 5th century sculpture, lay the seed for the upwardly spiraling corkscrews of the baroque...
Cassell also has the advantages of height and strength, for which she's earned the nickname "Amazon...
...determine why the casing remained at the clinic site. Workers from the National Atomic Energy Commission are preparing to entomb the lead container, the cesium and other contaminated material in concrete. The commission has decided that the material should be airlifted to a remote mountain range in the Amazon jungle...
Actually, the biosphere becomes a problem only when humans get involved. In Brazil the Amazon rain forest, which once covered 3 million sq. mi., has been slashed by an estimated 10% to 15% as the region has been developed for mining and agriculture; an additional 20% has been seriously disturbed. When the downed trees are burned or rot, CO2 and other greenhouse gases are released. The same kind of deforestation in Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines, say experts, may already be helping to make the world warmer...