Word: barrens
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...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...
...another entry to the list of potential trouble spots around the world: the barren but mineral-rich Atacama Desert at the narrow border between Chile and Peru...
Richard Lipkin, a sophomore at Columbia Preparatory School in New York City, represents Benin. Lipkin described Benin Thursday as "43,000 square miles of barren land...
...between the working father and the nurturing mother has set the foundation for an inflexible social institution, including much more than bearing children. Since the first stirrings of the patriarchal system, she says, women have been valued only by the number of children--particularly sons--they have borne, and barren women have been deigned purposeless. Women are seen through a patriarchal prism; as mothers and lovers, they are trapped by self-fulfilling role patterns. Daughters grow up to become mothers, forced to supply all the emotional support their children will receive, unable to relate on an individual, unstandardized level...
...players left the field, the orange-leaved maple trees swayed in the wind behind them. In a few weeks, the trees will be barren, the leaves gone. But Saturday was the glory day for the Princeton booters, and the trees wore their colors boldly to mark the occasion...