Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are also a literary critic's intellectual wet dream. Potluck is comprised of stages--as Fitch told The Crimson, "The protagonist creates a city in his mind, destroys it, is eaten by a tiger, swims around in an ocean that soon becomes a desert, and then winds up back in his living room"--that completes a cycle. Like a Biblical parable, it tells of the destruction of civilization at the hands of hubristic pseudo-intellectuals. The punishment: society is destroyed like the Tower of Babel and sunk into the ocean like Atlantis...
...duty during the Second World War. The stressful monotony of his job has forced him to forget those younger, happier days, until his old friend Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), intrudes on Robert's busy schedule to remind him of old times. Says Antonio to Robert, "Youva become arid, lika desert." Thus begins Antonio's program of re-hydration...
...which seek to negate the charity of international corporations. Mobil seems a bit worried about the outcome of this struggle, but I believe without cause. American investors (including Harvard) grasp Mobil's point and, as usual, will remain on the side of right. Fear not, Mobil; we would never desert you in this, your time of need...
...this picture, of course, and relaxation is mostly a rumor. Holidays usually have some sort of affiliated work benefits--"Sand," says his colleague Komuro, "can turn into an accessory"--and he likes challenges in his recreation as well as his vocation. On a trip last year to the Kutch desert in the Indian state of Gujarat, his car broke down in the middle of a bridge spanning a salt sea. While friends fought off fantasies of sunstroke, dehydration and death in the wilderness, Miyake gazed at the weird water patterns below him, exclaiming, "This is really special." The travelers were...
...much money on. Since it's on the southeastern tip of Cuba and surrounded by mountains, its climate greatly resembles southern California's. Trade winds blow moisture off the Caribbean over the harbor and into the mountains, where it finally rains. As a result the immediate harbor area is desert--no streams, springs or significant vegetation of any kind. What's green and grows was probably brought...