Word: webs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHIANG wisely saw all the boobytraps in Stillwell's "opportunity," He ruled, like Chinese emperors in the past, within a web of local understandings and power balances that bound him as tightly as it bound his local commanders. A reorganization of the army would have toppled the delicate balances and sent Chiang tumbling down with them...
...Web of Life...
...heal itself; tire marks made in the tundra 25 years ago are still plainly visible. What most worries ecologists, in fact, is man's blindness to his own utter dependency on all ecosystems, such as oceans, coastal estuaries, forests and grasslands. Those ecosystems constitute the biosphere, a vast web of interacting organisms and processes that form the rhythmic cycles and food chains in which ecosystems support one another...
...would have been easy to play the spider ensnared by her own web, but Bujold knows better. In her "doleful prison," she suddenly appears as the real Anne must have been: a clever child who grew in stature not in the brilliance of her court but in the shade of her executioner. The performance establishes the star, but not her setting. A great King may be enough to restore a country; a noble Queen is insufficient to save a base film...