Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knock myself loose for Mr. Nixon in 1959 and 1960," he wrote, "and cast my lot with him through the long, arid comeback years of 1965 through 1968 to have him-or some lizard-lidded paranoid acting in his name without his approval-eavesdropping on my conversations...
...captured terrorists. One reason: the presence of large Greek communities in Arab countries. But to the Greeks, increasingly angry over the terrorist habit of using Athens as a convenient hunting ground (six incidents in five years), this most recent atrocity was the breaking point. The two captives -Shaif al Arid, 22, and Tallal Kantourah, 21, both from Jordan-were quickly indicted for premeditated murder. They face the death penalty, which in Greece is by firing squad...
...arid plains of western Texas, the small city of Odessa (pop. 79,000) was built for one reason: exploitation of the immense oil deposits that lie around it. But today's riches disguise tomorrow's problem. The oil reserves will run out in 15 to 20 years-and then what? The town has no other industry, and the surrounding land is too poor to support large-scale cattle ranching, much less farming...
...these elements are present in Uncle Vanya, and they are vividly realized in a superbly exhilarating revival directed by Mike Nichols. An arid, aging retired professor, Serebryakov (Barnard Hughes) returns to the family estate with his young wife Elena (Julie Christie). The visit is a catalytic agent that exposes the alternately tragic and comic tensions of unrequited loves and lives. The caustically self-pitying Uncle Vanya (Nicol Williamson), who has worked the estate along with his niece Sonya (Elizabeth Wilson), realizes that he has sacrificed his life in the service of a pompous academic fraud. The mute adoration he offers...
...vacation. A weekend in June is hot, dry and boring. On a Saturday afternoon there are few cars on the streets in the downtown shopping district and many of the city's throughways have no traffic at all. The dusty heat, blown in off the great plains, is arid and uncomfortable...