Word: scenically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bear Circus by William Pène du Bois. 48 pages. Viking. $4.95. The author can do more with 26 koala bears in a gum tree, a plague of locusts and a pocketful of friendly kangaroos than you could imagine. Scenic but thin...
...Crimson may have found this nice concern for the law somewhat ironic.) I suppose, however, that you are right in saying that there would not be a bloodbath in Taiwan unless the survivors were unwise enough to resist consolidation: they would instead be simply shipped off to some scenic part of Tibet for reeducation...
...Horgan retains his penchant for elaborate scenic metamorphosis because "one object transformed into many different things is interesting." In Tom Paine he utilized a large blue cross that became, by turns, the sea, Marie Antoinette's gown and eventually a termite queen. "In Superstar," O'Horgan points out enthusiastically, "the altar is also the table for the Last Supper and the rock upon which Christ prays. Then it becomes a cart in which the soldiers push Jesus. That pushing around the stage creates energy...
...ENGLAND'S ruggedly beautiful shoreline, sliced by scenic rivers, bays and estuaries, is caught between the pincers of population and industry. More than 75% of the region's 11,847,186 inhabitants live in cities, and most of those cities and their industries are situated along the coast. Their effluents are fouling the water. Untreated sewage and industrial wastes discharged into portions of the Penobscot River in Maine have created sludge beds in the river and bay, and the oxygen levels of the water have been drastically reduced. This, in turn, is believed to be responsible for decreasing...
...photographs were as scientifically valuable as they were scenic. A panoramic shot of the mountains, for example, showed distinct layering on the different slopes. But surprisingly, the layers slant in one direction in some places and take a sharply different course in others. Since the layers were probably laid down by the same lava flows, why did they veer off in different directions? The most likely explanation, according to Paul Gast, chief of lunar and planetary science at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, is that these flows probably preceded the cataclysmic event (presumably a large meteor impact) that created...