Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weather conditions that had isolated Buffalo in the snow-and frozen Florida's oranges-had also aggravated the 13-month drought that has plagued eight Western states. A high-pressure system lay off the West Coast, diverting winds northward to pick up arctic cold and blocking the normal flow of moisture to the West. In California, the loss in crops and other agricultural production may exceed $1 billion, and the water shortage is already affecting daily living in some unlikely places. One is Marin County, an affluent, scenic suburban area just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco...
Throughout the book, Barry incorporates excerpts from Sand's own extensive autobiographic works and correspondence, without disrupting the flow of his own prose. Although the most memorable phrases in the book are Sand's, Barry too is highly readable. He deals with the potentially trite, unhappy childhood syndrome with just a dash of sentimental emotionalism, making the reader aware of the conflicts and complexes which shaped Sand without turning her life into a soapy saga...
Dancers in flesh-colored leotards, an empty stage--there is little to focus on but the symmetrical ebb and flow of movement phrases, a rhythm which underscores at every moment the steady pulse of the music. Even gestures with a mimetic quality--the measured sobs midway through and the ending gesture, tightly-clenched lists covering weeping? eyes--are built to square with the monotonous pulse...
...more at those who already claim some familiarity with Cavafy--and especially with the disputes surrounding his life and work--than at newcomers to the poet's work. While straightforward as biography, the author's propensity to lock horns with previous scholars (albeit cautiously and respectfully) impedes the clear flow of narrative by tending toward the tangential. It leaves the novice groping for first base, lost in a fog of detail. Perhaps that is only fair--Cavafy scholars have been stumbling through that fog all along. In addition, the book's organization is often disconcertingly abrupt; an impressive juxtaposition...
...canal job." Finally there is the problem of mass tourism-3 million visitors a year shepherded round the Acropolis by yammering guides, 6 million feet setting up their cumulative (and, says UNESCO, destructive) vibrations in the stone. The only solution to that seems to be to reorganize the traffic flow by restricting tourists to a boardwalk around the monuments. The idea of a Parthenon "restored" with fiber-glass replicas, girdled by lines of tourists trudging along a viewing ramp, may be depressing, but it also may be better than no Parthenon...