Word: rivulet
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...except for Gay who went out in the fields and disappeared, ducking under the stopped bank of a rock-banked rivulet) piled into Peg's overgrown, galvanized bathtub which sits smack in the middle of a lush, green rice paddy of a field like any other of the 1600 acres worth of fields on Pegleg's piece of land except it's where it is and not lost out in the real boonies of this vacant land--all of us getting all hot and drippy from the water bubbling in from the source (up 100 yards from the white bearded...
...lies on a hard foundation of permafrost-ever-frozen ground that prevents drainage. In the brief summer months, a thin cover of tundra soil thaws a foot deep. But if the ground is gouged by heavy equipment, the permafrost is exposed. When it thaws, it turns into a small rivulet that continues to erode its banks, growing ever larger over the years. The permafrost also makes waste disposal difficult. In their North Slope operations to date, oil companies have bulldozed shallow lagoons into which they have dumped garbage and sewage. If they continue this practice, increasing amounts of wastes will...
...Keilholz decides plush interior is absorbing too much sound. Hall's deep-pile gold carpeting is rolled up and replaced with black vinyl. All 1,384 thick-cushioned seats on main floor are removed and replaced with 1,502 skinnier wood-back models. Rivulet-shaped panels are tacked on side walls to reflect flow of sound from stage. Hall looks like it was just given permanent wave. Total cost: $470,000. Acoustically, critics happier. Musicians too. Sound is livelier. Bass and high strengthened, echoes reduced. But visually, verdict is negative. Hall looks completely different. Blue walls now recreation-room...
...know of no one in this country with so pure a voice as Miss Adele Addison. Or so beautifully controlled a voice. When she sings one realizes that, like some great dam, she is withholding tremendous power, and releasing only a pure and limpid rivulet of sound. Last night, Miss Addison sang arias from Handel's somewhat neglected L'Allegro and II Penseroso with the Cambridge Society for Early Music; and sang them as only...
...silver of persuasion, the gold of assurance, the hard diamond of logic, and sometimes the brass of sheer arrogance. Tall, gangling TV Star (Medic; Have Gun, Will Travel) Richard Boone brings to his Lincoln the homely gravity of the Mathew Brady photographs. His drawling voice begins like a modest rivulet picking its way over pebbles of country wit and wisdom, then swiftens into a stream of social inquiry and protest, and finally cascades in a thundering waterfall of conscience aroused: "A vast portion of the American people do not look upon slavery as a very little thing. They look upon...