Word: shores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maryland's Somerset County calls it "an aggravation." Some of Somerset's oft-bitten residents would describe it in considerably stronger terms. Because of heavy rainfall, muggy weather and high tides that keep water overly long in the salt marshes of the state's Eastern Shore, the area is aswarm with mosquitoes. To determine how bad the infestation really is, the state's department of agriculture sent human volunteers into a mosquito-infested marsh and had them stand still for 60 seconds. As many as 100 mosquitoes per minute landed on the volunteers' exposed skin...
While Rhodesia's Ian Smith, South Africa's Vorster and South African Bantustan Chief Gatcha Buthelezi insist that American investments provide jobs for South African blacks, the trade union groups and leaders of South Africa's black liberation movements contend that American dollars only serve to shore up the apartheid regime...
...casting could not have been better. Ellen Burstyn, meanwhile, does not quite convince as the lawyer's wife; she's supposed to growl like a trapped domestic pet and take gleeful pleasure in taking on a lover to spite her husband, but somehow Burstyn comes on like Dinah Shore trying to play Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. The performances, however, are really peripheral to Resnais' fascination, haunting insights into fantasy, conveyed both in the movie's dialogue and in its visual composition. A chit-chat review cannot do it justice; see it, and discuss...
...puts it, "guesstimates," based largely on the observation of strata formations that in other areas have proved to encase oil and gas basins. The calculations can be miles off-literally, Alaskan topography intrigued oil geologists, but some thought that the reserves would be found on Alaska's south shore. Instead, the oil is gushing from the North Slope...
...third of the world's undiscovered oil is locked beneath the sea bed. The geological profile of the U.S. Eastern Continental shelf holds hope of rich deposits. Most promising: the Georges Banks, 125 miles east of Cape Cod, and the Baltimore Canyon, 75 miles off the New Jersey shore...