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...shadow of Iran's Zagros Mountains stands a forbidding wasteland known as Dasht-i-Lut (Great Sand Desert). There, for thousands of years, howling sandstorms have been shifting the dunes and wearing the rocks into fantastical shapes. Convinced that no civilization could have risen and thrived under these inhospitable conditions, archaeologists long bypassed the area...
...then Farmer Brown will frown on the old briar patch and call it wasteland and threaten to clear away all the bushes and trees," wrote Author Thornton Burgess in 1947, in "The Old Briar Patch." But in the end Farmer Brown always decided to save the patch - and so last week did the town of Sandwich, Mass. (pop. 5,000). By unanimous vote, the 800 citizens decided to spend $200,000 to buy up 57 acres of meadows, ponds and forest, including the five acres of bull and cat briars that har bored such Burgess creatures as Reddy Fox, Bobby...
Groove Tube. Beyond the vast wasteland. At the Video Theater, 24 Brighton...
Though a couple of skillful articles treat Virginia Woolf's literary achievements, in general, the literature addressing her as both an artist and a personality is a critical wasteland. Aileen Pippett's mawkishly reverential biography, The Moth and the Star, (1955), was symptomatic of the uncritical enthusiasm Virginia Woolf inspired, and contributed to the adulation with which many students and emancipated women still regard the "high priestess of Bloomsbury...
...chest while her husband strode zombie-like at her side." Next day, the city was under a pall of smoke and red dust. Thousands of refugees crowded the highways, carrying what belongings they had been able to save. Surveying the damage, as vultures circled over a 320-block wasteland that had been designated a "contaminated area," Lieut. Colonel José Alagret, commander of Nicaragua's army engineers, said sadly, "This is a city that was, but is no more...