Word: landed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show opens with music, a buzzing and humming so powerful you may wonder if Glass actually commissioned 1000 airplanes to land on the roof of the theater. The music intensifies; the walls shake. No longer do you hear the music, you feel it rattling your rib cage, shaking your elbows, your knees, your thighs. Harmonies become distorted, and as they change, they disrupt the rhythm of your heartbeat. A hint of melody develops, disappears, reappears; it is the theme to E.T., except it appears to have been rewritten by someone under the influence of LSD. M appears onstage...
...maybe golfers don't have Tony Mandarich bodies or Carl Lewis legs. But anyone who can drive a tiny, white ball more than 300 yards and have it land right in the middle of the fairway must have plenty of mental toughness and just the correct amount of athletic ability...
Duehay has said he signed the petition because he opposes having an institutional building in a residential neighborhood. And he has stressed that for the same reasons, he opposes the sale of the property to the primarily white Lincoln Institite for Land Policy...
This does not have to happen. A dramatic drop in Brazil's birth rate promises to reduce future pressures to cut the forests, and experts believe the country could halt much of the deforestation with a few actions. By removing the remaining subsidies and incentives for clearing land, Brazil could both save money and slow the speculation that destroys the forests. Many environmentalists prefer this approach to the enactment of new laws. Brazilians have developed a genius, which they call jeito, for getting around laws, and many sound environmental statutes on the books are ignored...
Linden has explored the complex and sometimes tragic relationships between humans and nature in several books, including Silent Partners, which considers the implications of language experiments with apes. For this week's article Linden spent ten days crisscrossing the region by air, water and land to assess the Amazon's chances for survival. Says Linden: "The question is whether the concern everyone now has about the environment will translate into meaningful action...