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...teenagers in the early '60s, best friends Toni and Chris glorified everything French, fell in love with la vie boheme and, most importantly, rejected the suburban wasteland and lifestyle their parents submitted to. The mass of generic houses at the end of the London Underground Metropolitan Line, referred to as Metroland, disgusted and frightened these two aspiring artists (one poet, one photographer). The view of Metroland from the train is both boring and ominous-mile after mile of conformity, complacency and security...
...conducted extensive oil drilling operations that have yielded 900 million barrels of crude oil from the land in which they live, known as Ogoniland. The World Bank reports that Nigeria suffers about 300 major oil spills a year, turning the "breadbasket of Nigeria" into a blackened and largely infertile wasteland...
...same listener also criticized "the mindlessand superficial `Top 40' type of programming whichhas become more and more the norm and erodedprogramming standards to the point where FMclassical music has become a wasteland ofrepetition, predictability, excerpts, warhorses bya handful of overly familiar composers, andsystematic neglect of the vast treasures ofrecorded music...
...fuss about teachers [NATION, July 20]? I've taught high school English for almost 20 years, and I've discovered that good teachers produce students who learn how to teach themselves. Good teachers are passionate about how young people learn. Good teachers are those who quietly ignore the wasteland of school administrations and the quibbles of the unions. They just teach their classes. JOHN E. WHITING Matawan...
...with Clockers, his 1992 novel about the drug trade in a worn-down wasteland of urban New Jersey, Richard Price creates in his new novel, Freedomland (Broadway Books; 546 pages; $25), a thriller in which plot grows inevitably from place, and place seems utterly real. The most powerful impression a reader feels in these two novels is the sense, in a scene set in a chaotic emergency room or in the junk-filled scrubland between a black housing project and a shabby white neighborhood, that yes, this is what such a backwater would look like, sound like, smell like...