Word: barren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paying rent; the rest were driven out by fire or building condemnation. Ronald Thompson, a welder laid off in Texas, moved his wife and two small boys to Seattle last summer, hoping to find shipbuilding work. He did not, and the Thompsons, broke, finally spent weeks in a barren charity apartment. "I always thought I could give my family a home," he says. "Now, well, it just feels hopeless...
Indian cuisine, one of the world's richest, is poorly represented in print and on restaurant row. So voyage to India with Madhur Jaffrey and Indian Cooking (Barren's; $7.95). The Delhi-born actress, who won wide acclaim in Britain with a BBC series on which this book is based, traces the varied outside influences-Mogul, Portuguese, British-as well as regional and religious traditions that have formed the subcontinent's unique culinary character. Its only common denominator is the symphonic interweaving of spices, seasonings and flavorings...
...shelf with Rabelais and Swift. Woody Allen's The Kugelmass Episode stands as a classic. In it, a professor of humanities is propelled backward in time to the arms of Madame Bovary and the pages of a remedial Spanish textbook: "He was running for his life over a barren, rocky terrain as the word tener ('to have')-a large and hairy irregular verb-raced after him on its spindly legs...
...remains of the burned-out revolutionary states, in what Philosopher Michael Walzer calls the "failed totalitarianism" that is descended from the classic, frenzied model of Hitler and Stalin and Mao. Such is the case in the Kremlin, which had already put its frozen heart on display with its stunningly barren funeral for Leonid Brezhnev, and now showed the world that it is no more able to mourn others than to mourn...
...powdered charcoal, to the soles and sides of my foot," he said. "I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles." Minutes later, Armstrong was joined by Edwin Aldrin. Then, gaining confidence with every step, the two jumped and loped across the barren landscape for 2 hrs. 14 min., while the TV camera they had set up some 50 ft. from Eagle transmitted their movements with remarkable clarity to enthralled audiences on earth, a quarter of a million miles away. Sometimes moving in surrealistic slow motion, sometimes bounding around in the weak lunar...