Word: canyonized
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...kindling from hundreds of vanished homes, hulks of cars turned upside down like giant beetles. "We found a hotel ledger this morning that showed 23 paying guests," he said finally to TIME Correspondent David De Voss. "But we can't find the people. The river has reclaimed the canyon from all its intruders...
...pressure on Mars is so low* that liquid water would probably boil away). But liquid water apparently once did flow freely on the Martian surface in earlier days; Viking's orbital pictures show that the planet is crisscrossed by dry "riverbeds" and sinuous valleys, including a deep Grand Canyon-like depression called the Valles Marineris, that were probably carved out by running water. During Viking's descent, the lander's instruments sniffed and measured both nitrogen (3%) and argon (1.5%) in the Martian atmosphere. Nitrogen is an essential element in the molecules of terrestrial life. Also...
...those rivers which spends its whole life trying to seduce a highway. Coiling, twisting, sprawling libidinously over rocks and sand, forever ruffling itself up, whispering, cajoling, the river only sought to make the road unbend. Meanwhile, the highway dodged back and forth from canyon wall to cliffside, avoiding the river's embrace, grinding grimly and duty-driven as straight and narrow as it could--in short, a coward of a highway with a yellow stripe down the middle of its back, vaulting over danger spots where the river threatened to merge. It was one highway the bulldozers and steamrollers...
...straw-colored Stetsons. Campaign placards floated above the farmers, providing a little shade from the intense noonday sun. A psychedelic rock band with gigantic amplifiers competed with ranchero singers, backed by trumpets and violins, across the square. As the din crescendoed, railway workers forming a canyon through the crowd swung their matracas (rattles) wildly. With hand stretched high in salute, a robust man in a white guayabera (tropical shirt) jogged up to the speaker's platform. The crowd broke into a roar: " Viva Lopez Portillo...
...rendered its spillway with a blue geometrical clarity; Richard Estes produced a view taken near Philadelphia's Independence Square, B&O; the Rockies were full of photorealists in National Park Service Jeeps, and one intrepid soul, Vincent Arcilesi, tethered his easel to the windy lip of the Grand Canyon to record on the spot its labyrinthine wrinkles. The results-78 paintings, first seen at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. -go on view at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Conn., this July 4th under the title America 1976, and the show will tour U.S. museums for the next...