Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie Ishtar features arid Moroccan dunes, so it may seem appropriate that its studio, Columbia Pictures, is thirsting for box-office receipts. In its first 19 days, Ishtar grossed $11.6 million, trading on the presence of Superstars Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman. That sounds good, but the film cost $45 million or more to make...
...without being obvious; a Harbison tune is less a hummable melody than a strongly profiled motif designed to forward the musical argument, not seduce the ear. His structures are sturdy,his orchestration is crisp and clean. Yet this is not the dread "Princeton School" music of baleful repute, the arid note spinning that often characterizes the works of Ivy League composers like Milton Babbitt. Harbison, who as a teenager played jazz piano and who at Harvard led the Bach Society Orchestra, is an academic with a heart...
Like Scott, who lost his ranch in the Big Open, many of the 3,000 human inhabitants of the flat, arid area are going broke trying to raise wheat or cattle. If their lands were combined into a cooperative and replanted with native grasses, says Scott, the area could support wild animals on a scale ; unseen since Lewis and Clark came through in 1805. Tourists would flock in to watch the deer and the antelope play, hunters to stalk elk and perhaps 75,000 bison. Scott presented his plan in Missoula last month to the nonprofit Institute of the Rockies...
Glass, Wilson, Byrne, Anderson and others had their consciousnesses forged in the '60s, when formal artistic boundaries were as inviting a target as the windows in a college dean's office. Their minimalist spirit was a reaction to the arid formalism that dominated the postwar period, particularly in music. But the rebellion is over, the insurgents have won, and they now find themselves in the unexpected -- and sometimes uneasy -- position of having become the Establishment. Notes the Next Wave's Roger W. Oliver: "All these artists started in opposition to what was being done at the time. But as they...
Dismissing arid philosophers as "cold fish," Augustine was a passionate writer. This is especially evident in The Confessions, one of the masterpieces of ancient literature. The book is not only a pioneering autobiography but the forerunner of modern psychology and existentialism. It contains piercing self- examination of the soul ("You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find peace in You") and of the mind ("I cannot totally grasp all that I am"). Indeed, Massachusetts Theologian Brian Daley credits him with being the "discoverer of the person...