Word: barren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUINCY'S BARREN modernity needs few alterations to take on the incarnation of a hotel. The bare carpet and vinyl furniture are not innately dramatic, but Fitzpatrick uses the room to its fullest. With three simple table lamps he creates moments of horror and tension all the more stirring because they do not rely on stage-lighting techniques. He exploits all the dramatic possibilities of the room's split levels and often brings the actors into and behind the audience. This intimacy serves Strindberg's work well. Rarely do more than two people appear at once in the play...
...attention on the fledgling nation. Instead the country struggles as a population of 92 million, likely to double by the turn of the century, labors under what is said to be the second worst case of poverty in the world, squeezing out the food from a land increasingly barren. Only the most cool-headed of agriculture and population policies, along with massive doses of foreign aid, can avert the starvation of millions...
Dallas (CBS). Will Brave Bobby and Barren Pamela adopt the love child of J.R. and his dead mistress Kristin? Enter the Ewing labyrinth and be hooked or be damned...
...scene in the barren Egyptian desert resembled an elegant military safari from the country's British imperial days-until the explosions began. A mixed group of some 300 U.S. and Egyptian army officers and accompanying gold-braided foreign military attachés lounged under black and red cloth tents in the chilly winter air near Wâdi el Natrûn, an oasis about 78 miles northwest of Cairo. Turbaned waiters, wearing flowing, blue-gray robes, or gallabiyas, served coffee, tea and box lunches...
...visited one of the homelands that has received independence, Bophuthatswana. Garbage lay scattered over barren fields dotted with corrugated iron shacks. Our bus passed another jammed with blacks returning home. A cage surrounded the driver. The Sun City hotel and casino rises majestically out of this wasteland...