Word: barrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production's success. Like something out of George Miller's Mad Max movies, they depict an exhausted world where love can be found only among the ruins and the survivors get by as best they can. Hunding's hut is an underground shelter; Brunnhilde's rock, a barren stretch of moonscape, glowing radioactively. The Rhinemaidens disport themselves among the twisted remnants of what appears to be a power plant (shades of Chereau). It is a gloomy, godforsaken land that well suits the Schopenhauerian concept of pessimism with which Wagner suffused his text...
...after all, president of the Mystery Writers of America. Others read him for his human interest: in A Thief of Time, his detective, Joe Leaphorn, is coping with his wife's death and his impending retirement. But Hillerman's most striking virtue is his evocation of the Southwest: the barren, craggy land and the complex social interactions between whites and Native Americans and among mutually mistrustful Navajo, Hopi and Apache. Here the plot centers on traditionalists who want to preserve ancient burial places, anthropologists and archaeologists who seek to study them, and "pot hunters," who pillage the sites for quick...
Then, with 40 seconds left in the game, freshman Peter Ciavaglia cut down the right side of the ice and drew Muzzati out of the net. Ciavaglia skipped past the flailing goalie and sent the puck into the barren State net to pull Harvard within one goal...
...skimp on pleasure and display. Untreatable diseases made 50 years an advanced age. The slow plague of syphilis is one of the smoldering subtexts of Simon's brimming narrative. Prostitutes gave the contagion to their customers, who passed it on to their wives. If women were not rendered barren by the bacterium, there were always the risks of childbirth and puerperal fever. Women were meant to provide heirs and cement profitable agreements through wedlock...
...very presence of the settlers symbolizes a basic national dilemma. For years this small but fervent group -- representing only 2% of the country's total Jewish population -- has exercised an outsize influence on Israeli politics. Even many Israelis who question the settlers' tactics agree with them that the barren hilltops of ancient Judea and Samaria belong to Israel and should be kept forever...