Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Florida, then for Phoenix. He was an advocate of improvement, tourism and more golf courses for Phoenix long before he bought his paper there. The Phoenix course on which Quayle learned to play is nestled among a dozen or so clubs, their bright green carpets dramatic against the pebbly desert...
...Wangari Maathai took on a formidable mission: holding back Kenya's advancing desert. Rampant tree cutting and unchecked population growth have stripped much of the country's land, generating hunger and poverty. In response, Maathai organized the Green Belt Movement, a national tree-planting program run by women. "Because women here are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve," explains Maathai, 49, who was the first Kenyan woman to earn a Ph.D. (in anatomy) and the first to become a professor at the University of Nairobi...
...washy music." She declines to analyze her own work but is keen about rap, reggae and Michael Jackson ("He's a doll, he's a god") and is open as a wound about the lacerating Irish upbringing from which many of her lyrics spring ("I'm walking through the desert/ And I am not frightened although it's hot/ I have all that I requested/ And I do not want what I haven't got/ I have learned this from my mother...
Folon's watercolor-washed world features serpentine arrows, pedestrian- dwarfing buildings and blank-faced men, as well as rainbows, birds and boats. In The Silence, 1974, he makes the enigmatic figure of a sphinx his own. The mythical creature, at rest in a blazing desert landscape, raises one blue finger to its lips to demand tranquillity with an inaudible "Shhh!" The etching titled New York Times, 1974, shows square-headed city folk blown about by the wind as they clutch copies of their favorite paper. Other images add a message to the mirth. The Feast, 1983, packs a chilling political...
...itself. The best medicine for any actor is a hit, and Driving Miss Daisy, which received nine Oscar nominations, more than any other picture released in 1989, has given her a megadose of Hollywood penicillin. Although she has played character parts in several outstanding films over the years, The Desert Fox and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds among them, until now she has never had the recognition in Hollywood that the theater world has accorded her for more than 40 years. Movie producers all but ignored her extraordinary range and talent...