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...from God-a birthright to be squandered or saved according to the demands of circumstance. Confident of an unending supply from earth's mighty rivers and timeless seas, man has wasted water and polluted it. Parched by unpredictable droughts, he has migrated thousands of miles to slake his thirst. He has fought over it since ancient times: Sennacherib of Assyria revenged himself on Babylon by dumping debris in the city's canals; today armed Arabs and Israelis challenge each other across the banks of the disputed River Jordan...
...been learned from people who just had to survive and did. Necessity, in other words, is the mother of preservation. During the second World War, for example, a British paratrooper, downed in the desert and separated from his buddies, slogged 200 miles through the sand, quenching his thirst exclusively from the radiators of abandoned Jeeps, tanks and trucks. And an American serviceman lived for 22 days in the jungles of Burma on insects, grasshoppers, larvae, butterflies...
Stubborn Gentility. At the Académic Julian, with its ateliers crowded by easels and nudes, the young Yankee drank in the French artists' sense of professionalism. He also suffered from a nonacademic thirst for painting nature directly, out of doors. Soon he was outside, capturing with rapid brush strokes the luminous sparkle of Paris streets after quick cloudbursts. Detail dropped out. Against an overcast, his clusters of black umbrellas suggested swollen, devilish halos. Unlike Sargent, Whistler or Mary Cassatt before him, Hassam returned to the U.S. after three years in France. He settled in New York, rendering...
...drunken missionaries, or dissatisfied colonial wives. In Dingaka, South African Writer-Director Jamie Uys does not stint on music and dance, which are an absorbing show in themselves. But the details of native life always remain relevant to this earnest, primitive drama about a proud tribesman (Ken Gampu) whose thirst for vengeance hurls him against the apparatus of white justice in Johannesburg...
...quickly evaporated from their bodies. Gudrun snapped the group again, as they drained their few remaining drops of water from plastic containers. Then they split up, Rimm and Hauser staying by the bus, Wanderscheck and the Bohms setting out for help. They staggered 35 miles before dying of thirst and exposure...