Word: barrens
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...arrivals. "Hey man. How are you?" he asks a yellow banded security man; short, Irish, build like a longshoreman. "You sure are looking goods continues the Oriental. But the Irishman is tough not good-looking. Perhaps this is a coded message that completes the gestalt of the scene; barren steppes, flooded with water, disappearing under a tide of people and their carefully-lettered banners ripped by the cold wind...
Part of the drama lies in watching Dysart wield his liontamer's chair, part in watching what happens to him as he is forced to compare his own barren life with the daily ecstasies of his patient. But the most powerful part of the drama is Shaffer's use of the psychiatric technique of abreaction--the literal replaying of key events--on stage. This allows him to get anything he wants on stage without any question of its being out of place. The choreographed ritual of the blinding, over in an instant, is much less like melodrama when it comes...
...dangerous methane gas. Barges and trucks bearing the finished product will soon be on their way to the port of Lake Charles, La., and in late January the first shipload will depart for Dubai. On arrival, the manure will be piped inland and sprayed together with grain seed upon barren ground. For six years the grain will be plowed under to build soil that should eventually bear food crops...
...problem is that barren as it looks to most people, Pantelleria is a thing of beauty to military strategists. The island is the closest point in Europe to the North African mainland-it is only 44 miles from the coast of Tunisia -and is still honeycombed with military tunnels built by Mussolini during World War II. Though the Italian army now has only a 20-man weather team on the island, there are rumors that NATO would like to use it as a radar station to keep track of Arab air forces in North Africa. The rumors are unofficially confirmed...
...little coves and no vegetation to speak of. Its one town looks like a slum-clearance project, and its 8,240 people are among the poorest in Italy. Volcanic springs, more like oversized tea kettles than proper Ve-suviuses, gurgle and smolder in the interior and, from shore to barren shore, there is not a drop of water fit to drink. Water, like almost all the island's food, must be brought from the mainland...