Word: arid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMEDIANS. The title belies the inexorably arid and sere setting in which an excellent cast of villains and victims (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) is touched by a vagrant grace...
...COMEDIANS. The title belies the inexorably arid and sere setting in which an excellent cast of villains and victims (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) is touched by a vagrant grace...
...arid-and cactiferous-wastes of southern Texas, where even today the cowboys say you can see farther, and see less, than anywhere else on earth, John Nance Garner carved a hefty fiefdom along the Rio Grande and parlayed his brand of conservative populism (with due regard for the interests of cattle, oil and Democratic regularity) into 46 years of power. His political personality was quintessentially Texan: grass-rooted, plainspoken, coyote-cunning, and he set a style of congressional clout that made him perhaps the most influential Vice President in U.S. history...
From the Mexican border to north of Los Angeles, throughout an arid strip 200 miles long, a series of fires raged for three days. Fueled by humidity as low as 1%, temperatures in the 90s and wind shrieking at 70 m.p.h., the fires blackened 109,068 acres, routed more than 5,000 people from their homes, killed five and caused at least $6,000,000 damage...
Whether in devastated wartime London or an overgrown jungle throbbing to the heart of the matter, the landscape of Graham Greene's novels is inexorably arid and sere. Yet in the midst of a life that is rather worse than purgatory and scarcely better than hell, his characters are touched by a vagrant grace. The Comedians, for which he wrote a script based on his novel, is Greeneland all over again, this time in Haiti. Off a ship and into the damned, doomed country walk three anonyms: Brown, Jones and Smith...