Word: gulley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dales appeared headed for a jubilee round when he played the first seven holes at even par. Then he came to the 380-yd. eighth hole and shot an eight when he manhandled his six-iron approach over the green and into a gulley...
...photograph that has caused the most excitement among scientists shows a 250-mile-long valley that resembles an arroyo (a water-cut gulley common in semiarid regions on earth). The valley is 3½ miles wide and has branching, streamlike tributaries that seem more likely to have been formed by water than by lava. "We are hard put to find a mechanism other than running water for these features," says Harold Masursky of the U.S. Geolog ical Survey. Although scientists agree that there is no free-flowing water on the Martian surface now, the sharp and uneroded features...
Gabriel the painter is its central character, a loquacious and unrecognized artist who buys time to paint his apocalyptic visions by turning out cheap still lifes of Chianti bottles to order for a downtown trash shop. He is the stoned descendant of Joyce Carey's Gulley...
...this guise, Agathon saves the book too. With his rambling wit, his irrelevancies, rages, blunderings, unfairnesses, with his tender-rough efforts to jerk his friend Pecker to wisdom through the muck of the world, he emerges as one of those scapegrace saints who have adorned literature from Socrates to Gulley Jimson. Robert Wernick