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Donald K. Baillargeon of the Screen Actors' Guild, which represents 1,300 thespians in Boston, points to the city's unique terrain...
Early May: President Wilson establishes an e-mail address (terrain@radcliffe.edu) to filter alumnae opinion about Radcliffe's potential "intellectual terrain...
...declared Monday that government troops, backed by the Angolans, have turned the rebels away from the capital of Kinshasa and have vowed to follow them east toward Rwanda and Uganda until the fight is finished. But TIME reporter Clive Mutiso says the rebels have two things in their favor: terrain and their own desperation...
...road cut to a nation of them across the continental trail of Interstate 80, and from one bemused geologist to dozens. Readers had stamina then, and over the years the New Yorker printed McPhee's emerging rock opera as a succession of four-parters: Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising from the Plains, Assembling California. Farrar, Straus published the same material as books, and the oddity was that in the magazine, attenuated among the Jag and Audi ads, these journeyings seemed dark, intriguing and geologically long, but in book form the same field reports were sunlit, brilliant and short...
...terrain of Seamus Deane's new novel can be stunningly lovely, as green and verdant as one would expect the Emerald Isle to be. His young narrator, never named, frolics though ferns and splashes in streams in near-idyllic countryside whenever he gets the chance to slip off with his friends. Yet all is not serene in this seeming pastoral; each crossing of the clear and shallow brook is a violation of the law. The narrator lives on the border of the Irish Free State, and the river hems him into his native Northern Ireland...