Word: soiling
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...missiles, while Moscow would dismantle 270 SS-20 missiles. The Soviets have 112 SS-4 missiles in Europe, but these are being replaced by more advanced SS-20s. Both sides would then be limited to 100 medium-range warheads, the Soviets on their Asian territory, the Americans on U.S. soil...
...Shaw, who might have written this play, Blessing evokes his characters as men and not just mouthpieces. He is greatly aided by Director Des McAnuff's understated staging, fine performances from Josef Sommer as the Soviet and Kenneth Welsh as the American, and Bill Clarke's remarkable set: a soil-capped hillside, 29 tree trunks shooting straight up into the skies and, on the far back wall, a framed picture of yet another woods, a reminder that these conversations will echo around the world...
...familiar; the actors sometimes find eerie pathos but often waver between lobotomized declamation and coarse accent comedy. And there is unattractive self-pity in the vision of an artist as a caged carnival act. Still, there are magic tricks, bursts of flame, ritual burials in a stage full of soil and stark tableaux echoing, or worthy of, Dali and Magritte. The words fade quickly. The images linger. W.A.H...
Once the trees are gone, denuded slopes are eroded by rainfall, which has been washing soil into 20-sq.-mi. Madden Lake at the rate of half a million tons a year. A study by Hydrologist Luis Alvarado of the Panama Canal Commission shows that silt accumulating at the bottom of the lake has reduced its storage capacity by 5%. By the year 2000 the loss could be as high as 10%, and by 2020 nearly...
...determination I had, and plenty. The same kind of determination that our pioneer forebears showed when they forged a proud and free new home out of nothing but virgin soil and faith in God. So if the odds were against me, I knew that I had the guts to stick it out. And of course, if all else failed I could always pull some sleazy gimmick...