Word: barrenness
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Faculty and staff members covered a student art exhibit in the Carpenter Center lobby with white paper to make yesterday a "Day Without Art." Visual AIDS, a group of New York artists and arts professionals, had asked citizens nationwide to enforce an aesthetically barren day to draw public attention to the AIDS crisis...
...Association, repeatedly emphasized in the 45-minute interview that she was still getting acquainted with the essentials of the University and her job. Her second floor in Massachusetts Hall is a testament to that fact, with walls virtually devoid of art or photographs and a bookcase which remains largely barren...
...contains, among other matters, madness, incest, something very close to fratricide and an abortion the consequences of which reverberate down the years. All of this is reflected in Crick's face and manner -- full of suppressed torment -- and in the eerie, sweetly stated hysteria of his barren wife, Mary (Sinead Cusack), who endures false pregnancies and indulges in kidnapping in an attempt to fulfill her need for motherhood...
...great-grandchildren of today's young people would have to share the planet with only a ragged cohort of adaptable species dominated by rats, cockroaches, weeds, microbes. The world in which they survived would consist largely of deserts, patches of tropical forests, eroded mountains, dead coral reefs and barren oceans, all buffeted by extremes of weather...
...unless a new round of volcanism erupts worldwide or a comet courses in from outer space, human activities will govern the destiny of earth's ecosystems. It may soon be within human power to produce the republics of grass and insects that writer Jonathan Schell believed would be the barren legacy of nuclear war. If humanity fails to seek an accord with nature, population control may be imposed involuntarily by the environment itself. Is there room for optimism? Yes, but only if one can imagine the people of 2050 looking back at the mad spasm of consumption and thoughtless waste...