Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that she could be located in a wooded area some 20 miles north east of Atlanta. The kidnapers had hidden her well. Barbara Jans had been placed in a coffinlike box which had then been buried under 18 inches of earth. Her tomb had been equipped with food, water, two flexible vent tubes which protruded above ground, a fan, and a small light which failed some hours before she was found. She had spent an estimated 80 hours underground. Still wearing the red-and-white nightgown that she had on when she was abducted, Barbara Jane was nevertheless reported...
Roadblock. He will also have to face considerable opposition to new programs to improve transportation and eliminate water and air pollution...
...place, and he uses the azure skies and limpid Mediterranean to give the story the cast of eternity and overtones of legend-in-the-making. In the final hallucinatory segment, he makes the screen a place of brilliant anguish, when time present and time past mix like ouzo and water until neither is what...
Nolan's cover is an overture for the book. Its color is old-moss green, the green of stale water. The page is divided by an unbroken sea-horizon. Running the edge of the even ocean is the boat of the poems -- "our soul...a three master seeking port." An old-fashioned wire grave fence spans the dark sky. Behind the fence hover five "characters" -- anonymous creatures. They are placed like a line-up of black sheep to carry us into the dream-vision of the book. We see them again and again -- hermetic figures, alone, hungry, against the austere...
Nolan's choice of colors -- muddy and wine-toned greens, blues, reds and yellows -- is effective. One fascinating monochrome is of a red hissing swan coiled in a white bankrupt-of-shade-or-blue-sky -- "Its heart was full of its blue lakes, and screamed: 'Water, when will you fall?'" The color illustrations are more specific and representational than the black and white -- and less effective. They are less of dream, less inventive, less demanding of imagination...