Word: barrens
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Despite low undergraduate orders, Soldiers Field will not be completely barren...
...evening of July 17 a member of the Soviet's executive committee, Yakov Yurovsky, ordered the prisoners to dress. They were herded into a barren, unfurnished room with a single grilled window. Because "your relatives are continuing to attack the Soviet Union," Yurovsky told Nicholas, the committee had ordered his execution. A firing squad of 11 Russians and Latvians began shooting. The scene was bizarre as well as murderous. Some of the women were wearing, in effect, priceless bulletproof vests: they had hidden jewels in their corsets, which sent slugs ricocheting around the room. Pulses were checked and the stripped...
...waste and untreated sewage now are clear and swimmable. No matter; because oil, gas and real estate interests pleaded inconvenience, water-quality standards are to be lowered. Protection of wetlands, which nourish marine life, is to be cut at a time when fish-producing U.S. coastal ecosystems are nearly barren...
...camera work is especially disappointing. With the full expanse of the heather-clad highlands to exploit, Caton-Jones focuses over and over again on hackneyed panorama shots and unconvincing, Hollywood-esque interiors. The few inspired angles on gray sky and barren hillsides only whet the viewer's appetite. Again, directorial detail work is evidenced in the all-too-fake sets of bad teeth and in the caked-on facial dirt (Make-up #57): "Psst! This is the eighteenth century...
...richest farmlands turned to stew. In Monterey County particularly, Nature brought herself to ruin: winds wrecked the orchards; floods loosened the vines and dragged crops out of the fields, which were too wet for tractors to plant new crops. Bees stopped pollinating, leaving peach trees and cherry trees barren. Even the cows were troubled, growing stingy with milk when their feet were wet and their routines disrupted...