Word: balding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bald eagle is ready to come off the endangered-species list...
Pacific Lumber has been logging for 125 years and is accustomed to indulgent treatment by state forestry officials. Now several local creatures are on endangered-species lists: not only the murrelets but also the spotted owl, the peregrine falcon, the bald eagle and a couple of humble amphibians, the Pacific giant salamander and the tailed frog. While Coho salmon still spawn in Headwaters streams, stocks of this once plentiful game fish have crashed so sharply off California -- in part because of logging erosion -- that all sport and commercial fishing was banned recently. Environmentalists gripe that wildlife-survey regulations...
Read in this context, Bainbridge's Scott is less than heroic. The novel is based on historical records, but the dialogue, descriptions and thematic patterning bear the author's elegant stamp. Her Antarctica glitters and inspires: outcrops of jet-black rock kept bald by constant winds; prismatic ice masses shot with rose, blue and violet. As Scott and the other explorers recall their experiences, they foreshadow larger events. The dinner parties and official send-offs suggest a fatal national overconfidence. Scott's sensuous, assured wife already has one lively foot in the jazz age. In a hemisphere where seasons...
Almost as surreal as Jerry Tarkanian's continuing involvement in the U.S. Supreme Court. Proof that once again, unlike the Tark's bald head, the rolling stone of professional sports gathers no [Kate] moss...
...said, "and now they're part of our heritage." The same thing happened to the father of "theater of the absurd" (he preferred the label theater of derision, saying, "It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind"). In 1950, Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano opened in Paris to catcalls, and a performance of his The Lesson ended with the lead actor bolting out ahead of angry spectators. But seven years later, a Paris theater produced a double bill of the two plays; they are still running today after nearly 12,000 performances...