Word: fallow
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...Gray strumming and wailing acoustic folk anthems and Celtic ballads; it earned him a small following in Ireland and little else. His two subsequent efforts leaned toward more conventional electric-guitar rock but failed to gain attention. (Lost Songs 95-98, a collection of tracks recorded during his more fallow days, was released this week.) Distraught and teetering on "the shitty end of the rock 'n' roll spectrum," Gray nearly gave up before deciding to turn his life-and career-around. "It had become a little claustrophobic to sit there with a guitar with the weight of all my failings...
...Freedom to Farm Act and talked about better husbandry of the land. He called farmers the "first environmentalists" and suggested expanding the conservation reserve program so that farmers could manage their land themselves but be rewarded for keeping it healthy, for instance by leaving weakened fields fallow to prevent soil erosion. Bush, on the other hand, talked in general terms about his desire to see U.S. farmers feeding the world through exports to open markets. It was unclear how this addressed the farmer's concerns. He also spoke about not using food as a diplomatic weapon, but failed to elaborate...
Adolescence can last until age 25 or 30 these days, observes Arthur Kovacs, a psychologist in Santa Monica, Calif. "There are false career starts," he explains, "trying out relationships, lying fallow between jobs." He suggests that parents try to "accommodate the anxiety" of their kids and keep the stuff until they're in their late 20s--or at least acknowledge their feelings by saying, "I wish I could do this...
...sitcom a clef: a behind-the-scenes satire of a teen soap that more than slightly resembles 90210. The pilot spares no one: not Star, whose clone on Pointe is a smarmy phony; not Shannen Doherty, whose reign of terror on the 90210 set is replicated eerily by Hunter Fallow (Irene Molloy). Nicely cast and smartly paced, it's a sassy, catty riot...
Returning refugees such as Joseph and Nereciana found the fields lying fallow, the last few harvests still rotting on the stem. This wave of humanity could have precipitated a disaster had not the new Tutsi government headed by Paul Kagame secured international aid and, even more miraculously, somehow managed to bridge the bloody tribal divide. There were Tutsi reprisals against Hutu, but for the most part the reintegration of Hutu refugees into Rwandan society went smoothly...