Word: barrenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a great family and a terrific wife," Barren says. "I think I have a terrific family and friends support structure...
...grew dark and the view of rice fields was soon replaced by that of gas stations, announced by blinking, green and pink neon signs and barren land cleared for construction. The road was crowded with trucks loaded with steel pipes. Our van jerked, swerved and cut past each of them...
...game is BattleTech, a 10-minute interactive video extravaganza that plunks you down on a barren, monolith-strewn spacescape to neutralize a platoon of stealthy robots: your opponents. The process is called virtual reality. And Virtual World Entertainment, which besides the Walnut Creek showroom has retail outlets in Chicago, Tokyo and Yokohama (with a San Diego branch due in November), is just part of this burgeoning blend of art, science and razzle-dazz...
...Happy Day" at 9 p.m. Based on the novel, The Plage, by Andreas Frangais, this film is a socio-political drama, whose protagonists are members of a group of exiles, their guards and the official visitors, focusing on the complex relationship between them. Situated on a barren island, with the strong wind and burning sun, this closed society symbolizes a concentration camp with its imaginary characters participating in a rhythmic ritual, while searching for human dignity and the essence of things...
...looming presence. Often the viewer feels a sort of detached sadness constructed by the camera's eye. The montage of images follows the characters' soul-searching hauntingly. Fellini alternates this scrutinizing view of humanity with wide-angle sweeps of the Italian landscape. Windswept clouds and field lend a barren quality to the story's background. The effects are mesmerizing...