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Allen still thinks along the same lines as in Manhattan (1979), where the open and inarticulate teen-ager Mariel Hemingway stood for purity, a man's hope of salvation, while such overeducated, older types as Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep (the lesbian ex-wife) were like sucking swamps of neurosis and infidelity.
The site is below sea level (even below river level), hot and sticky in the long summer, surrounded by pestilential swamps, vulnerable to every flood and hurricane, and more than 100 miles (160 km) from the Gulf of Mexico — or anywhere else.
Antimony is so called from Greek antimonos , against single(ness) owing to its readiness to react with other substances, but its chemical symbol is Sb, from Latin stibium , the name of a cosmetic and medicinal powder (antimony sulfide) used by Roman women as a hair blackener for their eyebrows, and in ophthalmology (of which there were many Etruscan specialists, thanks in part to the unhealthy swamps of Rome's Tuscan hinterlands) as an eye ointment.
Already after 30 years LPs, gramophones , and wirelesses belong to history and a never-ending tide of new transatlantic terminology swamps these shores with the everyday expressions of Chicago and Silicon Valley.
Another word whose origin is shrouded in the mists of antiquity—like the swamps of Etruria, a notoriously foggy place.