Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overcrowding, suggests the paleontologist. Geological signs, he says, show that Southern France was then becoming an increasingly desert-like region. Forced to take shelter in gradually shrinking oases, the big beasts were cramped for living space; such nerve-wracking conditions could have upset their hormone production until their eggs became too thin-shelled for their offspring to survive...
...better deal, more and more erstwhile tenants are moving to condominiums, in which occupants hold legal title to their apartments instead of mere leases. This form of housing was devised in medieval Europe, has long been popular abroad, and lately has become the fastest-rising development in the U.S. shelter market...
...Redwood Tree" is a musically simple fable of searching, a seeking of shelter and protection. The song can be compared to Moondance's "Stoned Me," whose use of natural imagery sought more a communion with Nature than protection from...
...sexuality for the first time. But, as always for Leduc, the things of childhood serve as a backdrop for the most unspeakable actions of adults. Even in the act of trying to recapture innocence, she taints it with guilt. She creates children on the point of emerging from the shelter of childhood, and plunges them into life at its darkest, like those Renaissance painters who depicted children as miniature adults...
William Ritman has ingeniously solved the problem of whisking us from Lady Brit's lovely house, with its profusion of potted plants, to the makeshift Army shelter and, later, to Undershaft's foundry, with its gigantic experimental cannon. And Jane Greenwood has provided appropriate Edwardian costumes...