Word: barrens
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Mauna Kea, an extinct volcano towering high above the island of Hawaii, has not erupted in at least 10,000 years. But lately the barren, treeless area near the 13,796-ft. summit has been the scene of another, less menacing kind of activity. After three years of grueling work, construction crews are putting the finishing touches on the highest astronomical observatory on earth...
Death Trap. There are other complaints. "Los Angeles needs air far more than it needs water," says Jerome Waidie, a U.S. Congressman from the Delta town of Antioch. "Why then," asks Waidie, "should we increase the pressures on that limited air supply by a governmental policy that will enable barren acres to develop more subdivisions, more automobiles, and more people?" According to Ecologist Watt, the influx of water will worsen Los Angeles smog, which in turn will transform the area into a "death trap...
...scene that parallels Birken's rupture with Hermione, wanders off, exhausted and spent, into the snow. (The two are, at the time, on an outing in the Swiss Alps.) In such circumstances, nature does not offer Gerald the salvation it provided Birken; the landscape into which Gerald wanders is barren and frigid. He collapses, curls up like a tiny fetus dwarfed by a field of grayish white, his darker footsteps trailing offscreen like an endless umbilical cord. The actual physical setting of Gerald's death is overshadowed by its implications of loneliness and sterility. Compared to the cluttered literalness...
...Loeb Ex complicates any attempt to "de-intellectualize" The Tempest. The possibilities for elaborate staging or expensive costuming which would identify the scene of the action or the characters themselves are almost nil. Shakespeare, as we're used to him, seems strangely out of place in such barren surroudings...
...while we are on the subject of nasality, let it be said that the use of Ringo Start is a barren promotional gimmick. His role (Youngman Grand, Sir Guy's adopted son) was contrived expressly for the movie version and is superfluous from beginning to end. The same puppy-dog non-acting that complements flashiness so well in Hard Day's Night and Help is sheer stupidity (which is not inappropriate) in Magic Christian. The only thing cheaper than Ringo's name on the theatre marquee is Raquel Weich's above it. Her lucrative, careermaking breasts quivered expressively throughout...