MELBOURNE, Fla .— The first hint that something was amiss here, in the shallow lagoons and brackish streams that buffer inland Florida from the Atlantic's salt water, came last summer in the Banana River, just south of Kennedy Space Center.
The brackish streams of mood and motive that flowed beneath the work of James M. Cain and David Goodis may not have run deep, but they never ran dry; and the low-lit Los Angeles of Chandler is continents away from the garish, spasmodic town of Tarantino's fancy.
The brackish stream that flows from ocean to intercoastal, giving life to manatees, alligators, and tarpon?
When Higham waxes poetic about his wealthy and abusive childhood, no literary device is left unturned: "We fished for tadpoles that flickered like living commas in the brackish stream water..
When Higham waxes poetic about his wealthy and abusive childhood, no literary device is left unturned: "We fished for tadpoles that flickered like living commas in the brackish stream water... and examined the strange, lumpy gray forms of lichen on tree boles".
After we have finished talking, she takes me to walk across Hunter's land and up to what she jokingly calls her office, but which is really only a patch of scrubby land in a thicket by a brackish-looking stream (though the view of the moutains is Technicolor perfect).
Instead, they had led him to a desolate spot with more nettles than grass, a brackish rivulet for a stream and one miserly terebinth tree that gave no shade.
Corwin is a minimalist, yet his descriptions are precise: Blood spatter at a crime scene looks like "a miniature pointillist portrait," and the Los Angeles River is "a thin stream of brackish water purling down the graffiti-scarred cement banks".
Corwin is a minimalist, yet his descriptions are precise: Blood spatter at a crime scene looks like "a miniature pointillist portrait," and the Los Angeles River is "a thin stream of brackish water purling down the graffiti-scarred cement banks". Nor does Corwin resort to scenes of cheap, grisly violence in the name of so-called authenticity.
This approach would probably fail anyway because larvae of D. melanostictus can survive in streams, puddles and brackish waters.
African killifish (family Nothobranchiidae) include several clades that show radiations in specific habitat conditions, such as small rain forest streams, margins of large rivers or brackish zones [ 15].
