Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called for the explication of works of poetry and prose to foster understanding and enjoyment, rather than the overly intellectual analysis prevalent today. "Critics, with their abtruse theories and perverse and barren cerebrations, often make the study of literature a highly sophisticated war game," Gardner said...
...show is astutely structured to elicit some sympathy for Eva (Patti LuPone) and to present her as something of a scrappy feminist. It begins with her funeral and ends with her death. In flashback, she flees from her barren pampas birthplace to glamorous Buenos Aires, arriving as the amorous baggage of a cornball bari tone guitarist (Mark Syers). She soon acquires a sardonic shadow, a one-man Greek chorus in the anomalous figure of Che Guevara (Mandy Patinkin). Che dogs every step of Eva's checkered ascent through calculated boudoir encounters and forays into stage, films and radio...
...military front, Hassan has been locked for almost four years in a no-win war against the guerrillas of the leftist Polisario Front, which is fighting to turn the barren but phosphate-rich, 103,000-sq.-mi. slab of desert into an independent "Saharan Arab Democratic Republic." At home, he has had to contend with rising public anger and labor strikes prompted by a deteriorating economy; it has suffered both from the decline in the price of phosphates, which provide a third of Morocco's export earnings, and from the war's cost, estimated at $1 million...
...encampment of Tel al Malach-the "Hill of Salt"-is a huddled cluster of tents and tin shacks moored uncertainly on the monotonous wastes of the northeastern Negev, the barren desert that adjoins the Sinai inside integral Israeli territory. The 10,000 Bedouin tribesmen of the region, who are Israeli Arab citizens, have extracted a primitive livelihood there for hundreds of years, tending small flocks of sheep and raising meager harvests of wheat. Though Bedouins are traditionally nomadic, these have never strayed far from the four tribal cemeteries where their ancestors are buried...
Western Australia's Nullarbor (meaning no trees) Plain is an arid, limestone plateau that lies east of the old gold-rush towns of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie, southeast of Comet Vale and northeast of Grass Patch. It is a barren, almost unpopulated land of sand and saltbush. Out of the blackness of the southwestern sky one night last week, the fringe of this isolated region was visited by a fiery symbol of the Western world's most advanced technology: the final, fatal fall of Skylab...