Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SUSPECT TERRAIN by John McPhee
...Suspect Terrain, the latest issue of this arrangement, is a companion volume to Basin and Range (1981). That book explained the New Geology, based on McPhee's travels through the far West with a proponent of plate tectonics. This branch of earth science grows from the theory that the planet's great land masses slide around like dishes on a boat. Over time, Africa could end up in Brazil's feijoada, Australia in China's egg foo yung...
...stuff but overrated, says Anita Harris, the geologist who guides McPhee through gaps, folds and sediment from Brooklyn to the dunes of northern Indiana. Harris reads old rock, both high and low, and she is not convinced that plate tectonics adequately explains a great deal of "suspect terrain." The whys and wheres of her disclaimers may not rivet the attention of readers whose geology begins on the front lawn and ends at the beach. But Harris' rigors of body and mind cannot fail to impress. She moves robustly over the landscape lugging her hammers and rock samples. She computes...
...about the future." That is at least one thing too many. As he did in his 7½-hour Our Hitler, a perplexing, impassioned examination of German culture, Syberberg employs symbols the way others use props; in fact he uses them as props. In Parsifal, some of the actual terrain is derived from Wagner's death mask; the prominent nose becomes a rocky outcrop, the nostrils a cave. The final scene takes place in a vast ruined forum, which is contained within one of the composer's richly brocaded jackets...
...experience as a pilot, and the station had not uncovered that fact. Insisted Ogden: "Her flying was never cause for concern." But while some Denver pilots termed Key cautious, fellow reporters said they were uneasy flying with her. The windy Rockies near Denver are known as particularly hazardous terrain for even the most experienced pilot...