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...Georgia, proclaims itself the "Spanish Peanut Capital of the World." Just how long the town (pop. 5,383) can maintain that claim, however, is in doubt. This spring's rainfall was barely 6.4 in., one-third of what it was last year. The peanut plants, normally large and verdant, the size of trash-can tops with diminutive yellow flowers nestled in their leaves, are Frisbee size, no more than 12 in. wide, and wilting. As for Dawson's usually rich crop of corn, folk wisdom has it that the stalks should be "as high as an elephant...
...government passed laws encouraging foreign investment. Since then, vast sections of a breathtakingly beautiful country have been transformed-though not always in a flattering way. Huge development projects have brought roads, electricity, hospitals and schools to the hinterlands. Nonetheless most of Indonesia remains as it always was: a verdant wilderness populated by agrarian peoples...
...documentary which has received the repercussive cracks of retrospective masterminds lately. There are some cheap touches (to be sure, the interjection of old movie clips and football footage overstate the obvious) but the scenes show on location are touching and unforgettable, and the interviews (with Westmoreland in a verdant set It's not Ophuls, but it's a miracle it was made...
...most striking thing about the journals is Bartram's joy in "scenes of nature as yet unmodified by the hand of man." The dark forests are not at all frightening to him. Rather, they are "delightful," "shady," "cool," "verdant." Except for a few references to "musquitoes," he seems either not to have encountered chiggers, horseflies and other such pests, or else to be oblivious to them. As to the real dangers of the wilderness, Bartram believes that studying nature reveals above all "the power of the Creator...
...side of the stage, and of a 16-century English village on the other. Linda Beyer's costumes demarcate character with style and color; especially stunning is the apparel she designed for bride and bridegroom--matching outfits of forest green velvet and light green silk, evoking images of verdant woods and fertility...