Word: barrenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intercepted by his conscience. Martin (Stephen D. Newman), a bisexual member of the diplomatic corps who vastly prefers men, delivers his sardonic lines with Wildean brio. He describes his forays among the local boys as "doing my bit for Anglo-Arab relations." Martin's frustrated wife Jill (Holly Barren), a sensualist with an unbridled tongue, tries to get a bit of her own back in a horizontal frolic with Ian (Christopher Curry), a soccer star. But hot as he is for Jill, Ian proves dismayingly un-proficient off the playing field...
...love beneath childlike dreams of baseball and airplanes, the roughhousing and wristwrestling. The "liquid dynamite" in Weston's veins flows for Wesley and Emma also, and they lash out furiously against the invaders threatening the simple foundation of their lives. The system must prevail, however, and in this big, barren land it often does so brutally...
...political boss Tom Pendergast, when Kansas City thrived on a depression economy of gambling, prostitution, and bootleg booze. Ricker establishes early on the pointlessness of trying to recapture that milieu: Big Joe Turner sings "I was standing on the corner of 18th and Vine," and he shows us the barren parking lot that now occupies this intersection, once crowded with nightspots. He succeeds in capturing the unique camraderie that still exists among the men who made the Kansas City sound nearly 50 years...
Cars driven by boiling drivers roll on dusty highways across brown and barren land, from one barren city to another. They crawl on the yawning landscape of I-90, looking to flatten turtles or to veer toward hitchhikers to "pump their blood a bit." They roll on the flatlands of South Dakota, the no-man's-land of the hitchhiker who ducks the graceful parabola of a flying bottle and faces a more than likely prospect of a night on the prairie...
...cruised at 4100 feet. He was a geologist at the University of Cincinnati and pointed out the geological characteristics of eastern Montana, South Dakota and Minnesota. His expertise at pointing out the finer points of the brown and barren land exemplified the extraordinary character of pilots who pick up riders. Like all kind hearted pilots he flew with a placid grin and talked on topics ranging from the future of Teng Hsio-ping to the amount of coal in South Dakota. He was one of the elite of American travelers, who moved not necessarily to see places but to feel...