Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alchemizes these abstract spaces with a poet's fluent radiance. Scene after scene shimmers with the jeweled brilliance of Arab poetry. The Indian alone, in the course of his wanderings, walks through cities where corpses are strung from trees and sleeps beside angels in deserted churches. He sees the Virgin Mary emerging from the sea (until her batteries give out), and he finds himself one of 12 defusers alone in a city without lights. Woven through such flights are colorful threads of historical arcana: richly researched evocations of the "desert Englishmen" of the '30s, lilting allusions to Herodotus and Kipling...
...president wants to override the Endangered Species Act in order to allow logging in previously protected areas of the Pacific Northwest's virgin forest. A federal court has temporarily blocked the action, since it would lead to the extinction of the spotted owl and thus violate...
Isabella is perhaps one of the least liked characters in Shakespeare. A cold self-disciplined maiden schooled in a nunnery, she sees the world in absolute terms: virgin honor is worth preserving even at the cost of her brother's life. Yet Bloom breathes life and warmth into Isabella . We see her fear when pleading with the governor for mercy for her brother, her fury when the governor proposes sex in exchange for her brother's freedom, her anguish when she perceives her brother to have compromised his honor: "yet hath he in him such a mind of honor/ That...
...this for a benefit/cost analysis of the recycling bill? Quayle owns $350,000 of stock in family controlled Central Newspapers, a conglomerate that owns seven newspapers, two paper mills and a plant devoted to producing virgin newsprint and that reportedly belongs to the same industry organizations that lobbied against the EPA proposal...
...year 2000, the campaign to clear the Pacific Northwest of its majestic, virgin forest could be history. And in their race against restrictions and regulations, the timber companies wreak havoc on the countryside...