Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There may be a mystical streak in this young playwright, but the stage is mighty barren soil for mysticism. He is certainly haunted by the long scorching annals of the Jewish experience, to which Ribman ascribes survival with suffering in a mixture too complex for revelation. His social canvas is like that of a Talmudic scholar taking a wry inventory of the sustained mockery of human existence...
...Bureau of Reclamation so bitterly opposed by Shatz is an agency of the Department of the Interior. Founded in 1902 to irrigate the barren West, the bureau has spent $7.6 billion to dam, channel, pump and divert almost anything that flows in that vast region. The bureau's proudest monuments: the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee on the Columbia...
...eight weeks. At least temporarily, the culprit responsible for much of the nation's wild and freezing weather-the stationary high-pressure system off the California coast-had broken up. Its departure allowed westerly winds to carry clouds over the Rockies and dump long-overdue snow on barren slopes in Oregon, Wyoming and Colorado. California's refreshed farmers reveled in the rain, and mountain ski operators romped in the snow-but federal weather experts warned of ominous signs that the blocking pressure "high" might be reforming. It was also clear that the accumulated moisture was but a drop...
...Barren Pittenger, associate director of the Athletic Department, said yesterday that one of the primary reasons for the addition of a game to the football schedule was to increase each college's income from sports...
...synthesized effects rather than traditional rock arrangements. The recording is impressive: textures are clear and sharply defined, bass tones are rich and highs are scintillating. Sound loses itself in the infinity of space. A leap of imagination and one could be transported past the Pleiades, meditating on some barren asteroid and watching the comets streak by. The synthetic mode lends itself, as Bowie has proven in the past, to evoking the outer space reality in which much of his music dwells. Low is an unexpected break toward an entirely new form of rock...