Word: barren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...color camera as a landscape painter might, pausing now to frame a snow-banked brook and barnyard, now a pile of upturned boat hulls rotting in the winter sun. The country store, the local garage with the inevitable Coca-Cola sign and the railroad tracks piercing through the barren hills like a steel spine flash by in a blur of fast cuts. And always there is the distant, forlorn sound of cowbell and gull cry, wind and heaving...
...about the destruction of his own ephemeral constructs, Chris reacts violently to destroy her, just as she (in Chabrolian fashion recalling The Third Lover) selfishly destroyed the tense harmony in which she was an outsider. Chris realizes spontaneously that Christine's unrequited love nonetheless was the center of his barren life; Audran screams about money; and Paul, innocent of crime but isolated from his familiar life-style for the first time, struggles half in confusion and half to prevent Chris from murdering Audran on the spot...
...lessons provided by Disneyland were put to their first serious test in 1961, when a barren stretch of land midway between Dallas and Fort Worth was taken over by the Great Southwest Corp. and built into the site of Six Flags over Texas, an $18 million, 40-acre imitation Disneyland that even Disney employees concede is a "pretty good job." Following Disney's rules, it has thematic sections (one for each flag) and such thrilling rides as the Runaway Train trip through a series of mock 1890s-style hazards. To date, some 11 million paying visitors have loved...
Whatever the North Vietnamese are waiting for, Harriman and his team seem determined to outsit them and outtalk them. Despite the first week's barren outcome, few anticipate that either side is about to break off the negotiations. "There is something adhesive about talks like this," said a U.S. diplomat. "Once they start, they tend to go on." The danger is that they could go on-and on-until patience erodes and pressures mount in support of a wider...
Most of the prisoners, including 440 hard-core Communists, are kept in three camps on two barren Aegean islands, where they are allowed to receive mail and packages from their families. According to reports by the International Red Cross, they are also allowed to go outside for exercise at least once daily, are fed edible food and receive adequate medical care. Even so, the Red Cross considers only one of the three camps suitable for long-term confinement, has protested against the overcrowding and lack of proper sanitary facilities in the other two. The government also holds several hundred prisoners...