Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...road from Tyre turns inland at Naqura, the scenery suddenly changes from lush and crowded to barren and empty. As it wound through Dhayra, Awad Dib, a 35-year-old tobacco farmer and father of nine, could be seen doggedly rebuilding his house. One April night last spring, after the fedayeen raid on Qiryat Shemona that killed 18 Israelis (TIME, April 22), an armored column rolled into the village. "About 35 men came to my farm," he told me. "They said I helped the fedayeen. They took all the furniture in my house and piled it in one room. Then...
...time when stately homes had garden labyrinths as a matter of course. In sum, the "Monumenta" project discloses a great deal about the survival of public sculpture in the 1970s in something other than its usual urban form-a grandiose ashtray plunked down to decorate a skyscraper's barren forecourt. The Newport exhibition is worth the trip, even though few things in it are quite as aesthetically stirring as a glimpse of Intrepid beating to windward...
...spindly three-legged spacecraft sits silently on the dry, barren landscape. Suddenly, on command from controllers some 200 million miles away, the robot comes alive. A motor whirls; a slender, 10-ft. long arm reaches out, opens a small scoop and digs up some of the reddish soil...
...does not provide a physical context for the actors that can compare with the highly-nuanced emotional context they create. The play is set in Wakefield, Massachusetts, a small town north of Boston. All action takes place in the home of Margaret and Will. Lee captures the bleak and barren quality of their marriage in the dingy walls and sparse furnishing of his interior but somehow he fails to convey the sense that this is a distinctly American environment. Instead, the setting seems more suited to Pinter's Birthday Party than a play set in New England in 1974. Without...
...characters representing the very best in English shallowness. There is no further development of plot after act one, there is no major physical action beyond a brief lover's fight in the second. The director and the actors must build all the visual and verbal humor upon the nearly barren skeleton of the script and, at each performance, the actors must keenly tune the pace and style to suit the particular audience in order to thwart that "first sinister cough of boredom," as Sir Noel so aptly put it. At the Tufts Arena Theater, on Friday night at least...