Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Procrastination and I even developed a new game to make the flirting easier. We called it "Resolutions." It's quite simple. I just spend hours vowing to desert Procrastination. But during the whole game. I hug her very, very tightly...
...oppose his regime, one of his targets was the Coptic Orthodox Church, the ancient Christian community that has survived in Egypt since its establishment by the Apostle Mark in the 1st century A.D. Sadat abruptly stripped the Coptic Pope, Shenouda III, of his authority, banished him to a desert monastery, and ordered the arrest of some 125 Coptic clergy and lay activists. The world was shocked, but many members of the church hierarchy were considerably relieved. For at least a year, they had been concerned that the Pope's controversial leadership was leading the Christian community into serious trouble...
...Leonard, victory was not easy. As the desert evening fell, the temperature subsided from the day's high of 96°, but in the ring, television lights raised it to an energy-sapping 97°. In this crucible, the fighters bobbed and weaved, Hearns stalking while Leonard danced sideways, trying to stay out of reach of Hearns' terrible right hand. As an amateur, Hearns was known as a boxer, not a slugger. He lowered his hand position after turning pro, and the extra leverage he acquired gave him a ferocious punch. Hearns used the advantage of his reach...
...always in the past, so in the future: each ecosystem will produce its own specialized creatures. Relocated deserts will give rise to new animals capable of enduring for months without water, like the cameloid yet kangaroo-like desert leaper, able to store fat and other nutrients in its tail. Dixon proposes new islands settled by bats, which will evolve into forms specially adapted to exploit each of the islands' food sources. One group could well develop into an aquatic species capable of using its winged forelimbs for swimming. Another could, in the absence of competition, turn into the carnivorous...
...neorealist cinema, as the director of such parables of alienation as L'Avventura (1960) and Eclipse (1962). And while he expanded the viewer's understanding of the way stories can be told, he helped change the way the world is seen on film. In Red Desert (1964), he reflected the industrial and emotional decay of modern Ravenna in skies streaked like a sulfurous rainbow. In Blow-Up (1966), he painted London phone booths a deeper red, turned the grass a brighter green, to play against his protagonist's Day-Glo life. Now Antonioni has plumbed the resources...