Word: habitats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...copperhead. "Evolution loves death more than it loves you and me," she quietly concludes. And as the very fecundity of this "eggy animal world" seems to hurry toward its equally profuse extinction, Miss Dillard mercilessly brings on bridge-battering floods and hemlock-bending whirlwinds. Here is not only a habitat of cruelty and "the waste of pain" but the savage and magnificent world of the Old Testament, presided over by a passionate Jehovah, with no Messiah in sight...
...inhabitants of THE HOT L BALTIMORE are transients, and so is their habitat. The E has dropped from the façade of the Hotel Baltimore, and the wreckers' ball awaits this seedy relic of past elegance. The lobby is a kind of limbo where the remaining tenants relate or display their past falls from grace. In The Time of Your Life, Saroyan gave us one whore with a heart of gold, the luminous Kitty Duval. Wilson is no piker. He gives us three: Martha (Trish Hawkins), April (Conchata Ferrell) and Suzy (Stephanie Gordon). Martha is a lost, innocent...
...closed-circuit TV, the researchers watched 50 scientists of the Interior Department's Tektite program as they made underwater observations of deep-sea phenomena off the coast of the Virgin Islands. The scientist-crews went down in a submersible habitat in groups of five and remained submerged fathoms deep for two or three weeks at a time...
...cross did the beast back off. Since that frightening debut, Nessie, as the beast has become known, has appeared countless times to villagers and visitors alike; there are even murky photos of the famed Loch Ness monster. Despite such "evidence," scientists remain highly skeptical. Nessie's "proper habitat," the erudite journal Nature once scoffed, is not one of Britain's largest lakes but "the underworld of fables...
...addition to such soft sentiments, Matthews can cite hard ecological evidence against the building boom. The swamps not only serve as the habitat for wildlife-many of the commercial fish in the Gulf of Mexico spawn there -but the mangrove roots also stabilize the coastline, preventing erosion...