Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forests to regenerate species that had no commercial value as well as the highly prized Douglas fir, seemed too inefficient to the Government foresters. Now, perhaps too late, research has shown that clear-cuts tend to break an important ecological chain: they destroy the habitat of small mammals that shelter in forest undergrowth. These creatures eat and distribute mycorrhizal fungi, which grow among the rootlets of saplings and help the trees absorb water and nutrients. There may be enough spores of fungi in the soil after a clear-cut to start a second-growth forest, but a third crop...
...imaginative sets contribute greatly to the production's success. Like something out of George Miller's Mad Max movies, they depict an exhausted world where love can be found only among the ruins and the survivors get by as best they can. Hunding's hut is an underground shelter; Brunnhilde's rock, a barren stretch of moonscape, glowing radioactively. The Rhinemaidens disport themselves among the twisted remnants of what appears to be a power plant (shades of Chereau). It is a gloomy, godforsaken land that well suits the Schopenhauerian concept of pessimism with which Wagner suffused his text...
...They have shown how groups become empowered to speak for themselves," said Ann Maguire, executive director of the city's Emergency Shelter Commission...
Williams, who works in demolition, and his wife moved to Massachusetts to take shelter with her family after they were burned out of their home and lost all their money, he said...
...same time, a homeless person will be appointed to the city's Emergency Shelter Commission. Maguire also will urge the Governor's Advisory Board on Homelessness, co-chaired by Kitty Dukakis, to appoint homeless people to its board...