Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appropriate bleakness over a wet and shivering audience. The sky matches Beckett's play in its inability to illumine. The stage slipped between Mather House's cement blocks stands bare of even the smallest of miracles. No leaves flutter on the lone tree that cowers behind a tiny desert. A flute echoes as the only sign of regeneration when the moon disappears...
...policy that has wilfully ignored American history in Iran and pandered to the worst emotions of the American public in an election year. To be sure, the mission was badly conceived and badly executed, even on a technical military level. If the helicopter had landed successfully in the desert, what would the soldiers have done in confronting a sprawling embassy compound in which the hostages are widely dispersed, and guarded by 150 armed Iranian militants? Harold Brown will not tell; we can only speculate that the plan involved a considerable amount of bloodshed, and that the safe return...
...arranging them in circles or lines often reflecting the contour of the terrain. In "England" Long picked flowers out of a field, leaving a green X of plain grass. Long's groupings are all of a temporary nature--patterns in sand that wash away with the tide, clumps of desert grass that will be scattered by the wind. Long's two photographs of man-made structures are significant: Windmill Hill, home of "the first inhabitants of England to make permanent changes in the landscape," and Coalbrookdale, "the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution...
...side by side in descending order, both geographically and culturally. Three is mountainous, its inhabitants refined almost beyond fleshly desires; they have become too snug and self-sufficient even to remember the denizens of Zone Four, a primitive militaristic empire in the lowlands. They know the nomads in the desert of Zone Five only as rumors. But these separate regions have become united in a single problem: the birth rate among humans and animals has fallen off; a sense of sadness and stagnation envelops the lands. So the Providers who administer the galaxy issue an order that...
Weston went west to grab his share of the American Dream. He has a plot of land all his own--he walks through the house nude to experience the joy of ownership--two old cars, a chunk of desert land sold to him by a con man, and more debt than he can handle. The dream turns into the nightmare, Weston turns into a drunkard, and the refrigerator stands empty...