Word: terrain
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...Amid the crowd I encounter "Meet the Parents" director Jay Roach exultant at that film's success. He tells me that he will start shooting the third Austin Powers film in the fall for release next summer. He exudes an enthusiastic charm. He knows he is laboring in terrain where pleasing the audience is more important than kissing up to Academy members, who usually ignore middlebrow comedy, and he seems quite comfortable with...
...region, where the cotton fields of Saurashtra give way to the dusty plains of the rann, an 18,000-sq-km expanse that once was a marshland on the shores of the Arabian Sea but is now practically desert. The sparse vegetation is more brown than green. This inhospitable terrain is home to the Kutchi people, former nomads renowned for their hardiness. They, along with Gujaratis from the interior, have fashioned a sturdy local economy from the only two gifts nature has bestowed on this land: salt and sea ports. Over centuries, that economy built cities like Bhuj, Bachchau, Anjar...
...unclear to me, my bro-in-law and I share a powerful affinity for those hot, disgusting, highly caffeinated beverages you can buy only from vending machines at 7-Elevens. Finding a 7-Eleven in your own neighborhood isn't exactly rocket science. But we were vacationing on alien terrain. Where, oh where, was the closest source of the Treacle of Life...
...downhill events, the Crimson found the icy terrain difficult to ski. However, Harvard had some fine personal performances...
...physical limit and cull the weak from the strong. In the final weeks, recruits use live ammunition, construct actual explosives and perfect ambush techniques. The final exam lasts three days. A group of trainees, sometimes as large as 100 individuals, hikes and climbs through high-altitude, wooded terrain for three days without food or sleep. They are not allowed to slow their pace except for a few naps. At the end the hungry and thirsty survivors are given a goat, a knife and a matchbox. That's their reward, and they have to cook and eat it in warlike conditions...