Word: barrens
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...bitch. All the characters know why they are there; they all spent their lives destroying things--Inez a marriage, Garcin his wife's trust, Estelle her baby. But Sartre is just as clear about death; you are what you make it. Inez, Garcin, and Estelle are locked in a barren room for eternity, and they have only each other to destroy. But destruction is not possible. They are already dead and so instead create a symbiosis of torture; Inez wants Estelle, and Estelle wants Garcin, Garcin only wants to be left alone. They chase each other endlessly until they realize...
...other highlight of the visit was a tape the group had played during the intermission. It featured piercing guitar feedback and cavernous waves of applause. For twenty minutes. Barren of thought, grating, annoying--and after a while maddening. Nietzsche once wrote. "The voice of disappointment: I listened for an echo; but heard nothing but praise...
...then violence. Le Gastelois was stoned and spat upon when he walked through the village. Hooligans tore his cottage apart. By the summer of 1961, he had had enough. He fled to a stony, wave-swept reef seven miles offshore known as Les Ecrehous (the Rocky Islets). On his barren refuge, no larger than a football field, he learned to subsist on lobster, crab and boiled sea lettuce, plus gifts brought by curiosity- seeking tourists. "Only by going away could I clear my name," he would tell them. "I was sure the terrible attacks would continue and my innocence would...
When the first crickets appeared in Altinho in early October, no one thought much of it. After all, they were probably attracted by new mercury vapor lamps in the main square. Besides, far worse problems bedeviled the poor farming town of 4,500 in Brazil's barren Northeast, 100 miles from Recife, most notably a searing drought that had destroyed two harvests in the past three years...
...Mezzos Elaine Bonazzi and Frederica von Stade, Baritone Theodor Uppman and Tenor John Wakefield seemed wasted in their brief roles. Choreographer José Limon certainly knows all there is to know about Spanish tradition and dancing. But even his fertility rite dance in Act III succeeded in looking barren. Musically, Yerma is compelling. But as a dramatic experience, in Santa Fe, Yerma remained yermo...