In a move worthy of Citizens United, the chemical industry undertook an expensive negative P.R. campaign, which included circulating "The Desolate Year," a parody of "A Fable for Tomorrow" that mocked its woeful tone.
Time magazine patronized Carson's polemic against pesticides as an "emotional and inaccurate outburst,... unfair, one-sided and hysterically overemphatic," while the chemical manufacturer Monsanto fought back with a parody, "The Desolate Year," that envisioned a pesticide-free world in which insects ravaged crops and spread devastating plagues.
It was a very desolate 10 years for me.
Residents, many who grew up ranching the high mesas or exploring the monument's desolate canyons years ago, said the monument was special precisely because it was so easily overlooked by tourists bound for marquee national parks.
The account of the last years is desolate.
Over the years, the desolate and sprawling Nevada Test Site saw almost 1,000 nuclear tests, about 100 of them above ground.
Listen, now, to Pornography's desolate opener One Hundred Years, and you'll be convinced that some spectacular storm is brewing.
Benny returns to his desolate hometown after 20 years in the United States to find it in the grip of a murderous drug boss, falling in with El Cochiloco and his gang of hitmen.
Now, the mobile video app landscape looks quite desolate compared to a year or even just six months ago.
She died in 1984, and for years he was desolate.
"For one hundred years Poblenou was desolate," said Daniel Caruncho, an editor of ADN, a freebie newspaper.
