Word: wiltedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across America last week, the nation's farm land had a bizarre new look. In Kansas, large brown patches of stubble-studded earth interrupt shimmering golden carpets of ripening winter wheat. In Nebraska, idle center-pivot sprinklers stand like outsize scarecrows over many once verdant cornfields. In California, more...
What they saw was an intricate, finely co-ordinated process where a 30-second segment could take several hours of filming. The directors insisted on absolute quiet--which meant, for example, that after closing down Plympton St on Monday for The Crimson scene, they ordered the Adams House construction workers...
Angelo lives with his brawling family in a New York tenement, but he spends most of his time, day and night, out on the streets. Whether peddling wilted flowers in a local restaurant or just fast-talking a pretty girl, Angelo is a born hustler who has a fleet foot...
It was one of the quieter gestures in a day of theatrics for West Germany's Greens, a loose amalgam of environmentalists and antinuclear activists who last week took their seats in the national legislature for the first time. While most deputies arrived by car, the Greens marched to...
A few faded ribbons entangled with wilted leaves and a torn flag, once black but now faded to a blotchy purple, are the only mementos left at the mass grave site inside the entrance to Shatila camp. Children on their way home from school skip across the weed-covered burial...