This was a contributing influence on American thinking about involvement in the wars which periodically raged in Europe from the country's founding onwards, especially after the pointless War Of 1812 drove the point home.
For the teenagers, the appeal lies less in the river, which periodically brings flotillas of trash to the swimming hole, than in the very danger of the jump and the bare-chested freedom of the adventure.
That reckoning impulse resurfaces in "Rising, Falling, Hovering," which periodically updates us on the growing number of United States military deaths in Iraq (even as it scorns our euphemisms for these casualties): "As of Friday 850 of our members / will be Forever Young".
Waterfowl inhabit the reed beds of the great rivers, as do locusts, which periodically migrate in immense swarms, devastating crops.
The get-out-of-my-way water, which periodically slides in like so many push-button car windows, is only one of the obstructions to be wrestled with by the cast members playing fish, seabirds and merfolk in Disney's charm-free $15 million adaptation of its charming 1989 animated movie of the same title.
The brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens (Stål), which periodically erupted in tropical Asian rice before the 1960s, became a major threat after farmers adopted green revolution technologies in the 1960s.
The lanes are guarded by defensive Towers, as well as autonomous characters called "creeps", which periodically spawn in groups and travel along the lanes, attacking enemies they encounter.
His characters stalk through his pictures with a hair-trigger fury, which periodically bursts forth in images of great visceral impact.
The pot comes from a farm in Mississippi run by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which periodically sends the weed by FedEx to Rosenfeld's pharmacy.
