Word: swath
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...story with geopolitical ramifications. That, at least, is the formula followed with considerable, nail-biting skill in Robert Wilson's A Small Death in Lisbon (Harcourt; 440 pages; $25). The author constructs a murder mystery that cannot be solved without following a winding trail through a considerable and bloody swath of 20th century history...
...shirt. What is she doing in this movie, with each costume putting progressively more of her upper torso on display (a trend which culminates in one memorable bikini which allows you to see parts of all four sides of her breasts, while covering the important, R-rated swath in the middle)? I mean, wearing these outfits is a shade less deameaning than, say, doing carnival midget porn, but then carnival midget porn is probably going to be seen by a smaller audience than this film is. If she wants to typecast herself as eye candy, she'd better be careful...
Since only 2% of Americans live without a television, Brock initially despaired of finding even 20 TV-free families. Yet small ads in three family-oriented publications eventually elicited 280 responses last March to her 22-page questionnaire. The respondents were diverse, cutting across a swath of incomes, education levels, ethnic and racial backgrounds. But they were not entirely typical American families: nearly half had moms at home, and nearly 40% of the children were younger than three...
...Brazilian Amazon, roughly 75% of the deforestation that has taken place has occurred within 50 km of a paved road. In the 26 years after the 1965 paving of the slender highway between the Amazon city of Bel?m and Bras?lia, 58% of the forests disappeared in a 100-km swath on either side of the road. The paving of 1,460 km of highway BR-364 between the city of Cuiab? in Mato Grosso and Porto Velho in Rond?nia caused the disappearance of a third of the forest bordering the highway in just 15 years...
...appease residents. In Hope Township, he calmed Wayne Forte, whose English pointer, Bonnie, had tangled with a 300-lb. bear in the woods behind his house (the dog escaped unscathed). In Warren County, Eriksen surveyed John Suk's 140-acre cornfield, where another bear had chowed down, leaving a swath of husks in her wake...