Word: shades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, have helped Israeli restorationists re-create biblical landscapes at Neot Kedumim, a 220-hectare (545-acre) nature reserve in the Judean hills. In similar fashion, the diaries of a 19th century doctor have provided Illinois ecologists with a list of plants that once flourished under the light shade of bur oak trees...
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter in a fashionable shade for the '90s. The lovely and willful heroine, Hester Prynne, who was once doomed to wear A for adultery, finds happiness and fulfillment with one of Boston's first sex therapists. Her performance proves to be so outstanding that she is awarded...
...deer and hundreds of trout). "It's a long way from the trade lanes and booming coasts, but it's a wonderful place to live and work. Trouble is, everybody wants to claim it all at once," says Tom McGuane, the laconic author (Ninety-Two in the Shade, Something to Be Desired) who beat the trend by moving to the state...
...shade your eyes...
...mighty have fallen. In what used to be the German Democratic Republic, the Communist Party is an anorectic shade of its former self. With a peak membership of 2.3 million, it once embodied East Germany's political, intellectual, military and bureaucratic elite. Now reborn as the Party of Democratic Socialism, it has a scant 250,000 adherents, the majority of them former communist functionaries who, says one observer, "cannot believe they can hang up the socialist dream like a soiled coat." They remain loyal even though thousands have lost their jobs because of what Germans call Ausgrenzung, or discrimination against...