Morricone revolutionised the way music was used in westerns, creating a wild west soundscape of gunshots, eerie whistling, twanging guitars and dissonant harmonicas that matched the unsettling heat and tension of Leone's parched desert landscape, and its heroes and villains, portrayed through long shots and close-up cinematography.
Olivier chose to film the Battle of Bosworth Field in Spain, where the parched brown grass failed to resemble the green fields of Leicestershire.
Fertile fields famed for their melons, wheat and barley are now parched wastelands after irrigation canals were destroyed by shelling.
We'd already run 70 miles over three stages - through the stifling heat of the Gobi Desert; scrambling down and up countless dry riverbeds worn into the parched, hauntingly desolate landscape.
The monsoon, predicted to hit southern India's coastline on 31 May, will bring relief from the high temperatures, but it will not reach the parched north of the country for several weeks.
To get here, to the Garden, Mr Modi has spent decades roaring himself hoarse thousands of times before crowds of peasants in parched fields.
TO A parched mammoth or giant sloth, they must have looked heaven-sent: mirror pools of water waiting to slake a thirst.
But, towards the end of AP's monsoon rainy season, the field was parched and bare.
Both lack of rain and extreme heat have conspired to create the worst drought for 55 years with more dry weather forecast in the weeks to come.Across America farmland is parched, corn is wilting, reservoirs are low, rivers are running dry and wildfires have broken out in Utah and Colorado.
Yet the channel's inauguration was the most notable achievement so far of what, in the coming years, is intended to become a far more grandiose diversion scheme: bringing water from the Yangzi basin to the parched north, along channels stretching more than 1,000km.China's leaders have reason to be sheepish.
THE mighty Colorado river, which traverses America's parched south-west before (these days) petering out on the way to the Gulf of California, has inspired great engineering minds to devise ways of harnessing its waters, and fine legal minds to construct rules governing its use.
