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...seen, bringing to the continent "an archaic. Biblical feeling." It is the man's nakedness that fills the painting with a feeling of doom. In mid-Australia, stripping off clcothes is legendarily the last crazed, automatic act of a man dying for lack of water in a wasteland-an act the Aussies laconically call "doing a thirst...
...Wasteland. The actions of the small Nielsen sample are extrapolated to determine the habits of the entire tele viewing and radio-listening population. How risky is this? Committee Investigators Robert E. L. Richardson and Rex Sparger had some jolting examples: - In Texarkana, Ark., a woman "didn't like what Jack Paar said on his show . . . concerning the recent Meredith situation in Mississippi, so she turns him off every time he comes on, even though she likes the show." Since each Audimeter represents some 50,000 TV homes in the Nielsen projections, she cost Paar 50,000 "listeners" just...
...voyagers in the wasteland," said Gardner of the new enterprise. "We're fed up with present television, and we're planning entertainment which is profound as well as good...
...principal purpose is to bring fertility back to desolate Khuzistan province, an area the size of Michigan in southwest Iran, near the Persian Gulf.Twenty-five centuries ago. Khuzistan was the fabled fertile granary of the ancient Persian empire. But the region has since eroded into a virtual wasteland; the last major reclamation attempt was a system of irrigation canals dug by King Shapur II in 300 A.D. The new dam will water 360.000 acres, and provide electricity even for the province's remotest villages and five cities, including the oil-refining center of Abadan. opening the way for industrialization...
...where one can deposit a quarter and water runs out of an old innertube. At the same distance away are a telephone line and power line running down the highway." Scratches bulldozed in the desert are given glamorous names such as Riverside Drive. And in the center of this wasteland of sage and sand stands a giant billboard saying: THIS...