Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much more than a stone's throw from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington is a barren, 11½-acre tract on the Potomac on which stand only two empty gas storage tanks. Last week a New York building syndicate announced that it plans to build there a $70 to $80 million Rockefeller Center-like development, with six office buildings, a shopping center, raised plaza and skating rink, 1,003-room hotel, 2,000-car underground garage and two apartment buildings...
...Chinese would say you had a hostile attitude and they would . . . put you under the floor in a hole without food until your hostile attitude changed." Other "hostile" prisoners were confined alone up to 30 days in a cold, barren "jail," forced to sit at attention for 16 to 18 hours a day on rough log benches, or given onerous work details...
Figueres, educated at M.I.T. and recently divorced from an American wife, is something of a phenomenon in Costa Rica. After college, he bought a barren finca in Cartago which he called La Lucha Sin Fin (Struggle Without End), in recognition of the farmer's never-ending battle with nature. There he learned firsthand about the peasants' problems, set up a private welfare state for his own workers. He built them clean bungalows, saw them well fed from a community vegetable farm and a dairy that provided free milk for every child. In 1948, when the outgoing government tried...
...Steen packed his wife and three children off to southeastern Utah, where there are uranium mines. He "sniffed around" without the help of a Geiger counter, finally staked out claims on a high sandstone ridge in the Big Indian district near Cisco-land which AEC had officially declared "barren of possibilities." Time after time Charlie got promises of money to help develop his property, but when people took a closer look, they always backed out. The Steens lived on oatmeal and beans; the only meat they had was venison which Charlie bagged on hunting expeditions. In 1950, his savings gone...
Except for a couple of quick, vivid shots the Martians are not seen on the screen. But the story is occasionally told from the Martian point of view, as seen through a shimmering, eyelike bubble of film. Director Jack Arnold has made good use .of the barren brooding desert expanses with their lonely, unreal look of another world, and the picture is well acted, particularly by Richard Carlson as a mystically inclined astronomer. As was more or less inevitable, the picture is in 3-D, but the extra dimension does not add much to the drama. It is the least...