Word: wastelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...which the left has been slow to learn both in our time and in times past. When deceit and social neglect become cushrined as principles of government, they do not breed revolt. A decaying social order is not the fertile breeding ground of social change. It is a barrea wasteland in which visible movement disappears. This wasteland is the home ground of Nixonian politics Nixonian politics must be defeated if not this time then soon
...raved about ABC's Julie Andrews Hour and saluted NBC Reports. To even things up, he said that ABC'S new series, The Rookies, was a "dumb daydream" and called NBC's first Search episode, starring Hugh O'Brian, a "kind of plastic epitome of wasteland television: you want to ask for your hour back when it's over." With all the knocks, CBS of course has had its share of favorable reviews. Sheehan liked, among others, M*A*S*H, Maude and Anna and the King...