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badlands
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context geomorphology English) An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
WordNet
n. deeply eroded barren land
an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska [syn: Bad Lands]
Wikipedia
Badlands is a 1973 American crime film written and directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri are also featured. The story, though fictional, is loosely based on the real-life murder spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958, though such a basis was not acknowledged when the film was released.
In 1993, four years after the United States National Film Registry was established, Badlands was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. They are characterized by steep slopes, minimal vegetation, lack of a substantial regolith, and high drainage density. They can resemble malpaís, a terrain of volcanic rock. Canyons, ravines, gullies, buttes, mesas, hoodoos and other such geological forms are common in badlands. They are often difficult to navigate by foot. Badlands often have a spectacular color display that alternates from dark black/blue coal stria to bright clays to red scoria.
Badlands was a rock band founded by former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee and former Black Sabbath members Ray Gillen and Eric Singer. Badlands also featured bassist Greg Chaisson. After the first Badlands album, Eric Singer was replaced by Jeff Martin. The group lasted from 1988 to 1993 and released two albums, Badlands (1989) and Voodoo Highway (1991) before Gillen left and was replaced by singer John West from New York. Ray's death in 1993 effectively ended any hopes of re-uniting the project. The album Dusk (a demo recorded in 1992 - 1993) was posthumously released in 1998.
Badlands is the first album by the band of the same name. This album features Ray Gillen and Eric Singer, who previously played together in Black Sabbath. This album also features guitarist Jake E. Lee and bassist Greg Chaisson. (Eric Singer later played on the Greg Chaisson solo album It's About Time.) The album had sold 400,000 copies by 1990, according to Greg Chaisson, in a "Hit Parader" interview from that year.
Badlands is a 1989 arcade game published by Atari Games. It was later ported by Domark under the Tengen label to a number of home computers. It is set in the aftermath of a nuclear war and races around abandoned wastelands with many hazards. Three gun-equipped cars race around a track to win prizes.
Badlands are a type of terrain with clay-rich soil, and are found in regions with arid climate.
Badlands or Bad lands may also refer to:
is a 1984 laserdisc video game developed and published for the arcades by Konami. In the vein of interactive movie games like Wild Gunman, Dragon's Lair, and Cliff Hanger, Badlands lets its players navigate through various animated sequences by pressing a single button at a precise moment (unlike Dragon's Lair, there is no joystick). Since the game is themed as an old West shooter, the function of the button is almost always the fire the main character's gun to fend off against attackers. If the player shoots too soon, he will be hanged for murder. Failing to fire in time, however, will result in being killed by the attack. As the player progresses, the timing becomes more precise.The game was very particular about firing at the right time, which made it very difficult and often unplayable. At one point Buck must shoot a snake and fire at the snake at the exact second to succeed. It is even possible for Buck to shoot himself in sequences where it shows him. Distributed by Centuri in the U.S., it was Konami's only laserdisc game.
"Badlands" is the leadoff track on Bruce Springsteen's fourth studio album Darkness on the Edge of Town, and its second single.
Badlands is an album by Canadian musician Dirty Beaches. It was released in March 28, 2011 by Zoo Music.
It was longlisted as a nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.
Badlands marks the second album from Colossus. Facedown Records released the project on September 16, 2014. Colossus worked with Josh Barber on the production of this album.
Badlands is the musical solo name used by Swedish producer, songwriter and sound designer Catharina Jaunviksna based in Malmö. Her lush sound is clearly inspired by early new wave and The Haçienda's heyday, and the music can further be described as space-age fables told through analog synths, club beats and organic pop orchestration.
Badlands is the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Halsey, released on August 28, 2015 by Astralwerks and Capitol. Badlands debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 97,000 copies. The album was preceded by the digital release of two singles, "Ghost" and " New Americana". The third single from the album, " Colors", was released on February 9, 2016. A new version of the song " Castle" was released as the album's fourth single to promote the feature film, The Huntsman: Winter's War.
Usage examples of "badlands".
Besides, I need at least a dozen blasters to make it through the badlands.
This was clearly demonstrated by the way in which the fences that bordered on the city and suburbs were little more than tokens, without watchtowers, patrols, or minefields, while on the other side, where the badlands bordered on the remaining farm country, there was a wall of steel to rival any European frontier.
The rationale for the containments and the fences around the badlands was that they prevented the spread of toxins and radioactive contamination.
Hell Station and chuffed direct across the dry Badlands to the river country where Supply was located.
Bisti Badlands now, looking into the edge of a wilderness where eons of time had uncovered alternating layers of gray shale, pink sandstone, yellow caliche, and black streaks of coal.
Descott was remote, a month's journey on dogback east and north of the capital, a poor upland County of volcanic plateaus and badlands.
None of the canyons and badlands and gully-sided volcanoes that made much of Descott County a bushwacker's paradise, but the bigger patches of beechwood and the occasional steep-sided combe in thick native brush would do as well.
The earth gave back the day's heat, radiating from the bare clay of the badlands in the Drangosh bend.
Push all the way through to open country on the other side of these badlands, secure the route, and I will follow.
It was much darker here, where most of the sky was blocked out by the clay walls of the badlands on either side.
Without them, the vag gangs that roamed the badlands would stream into corn country, looting, raping, and burning.
It was likely, however, that someone or something would note a car like a Jensen heading into the badlands and file the fact.
As they drove farther into the badlands, Marlowe noticed that there was an increasing amount of graffiti scrawled on the highway signs.
Some were predictable: road obsessives who used the badlands and its lack of policing as an arena for their fantasies.
The badlands didn't run to health inspectors, and a good deal of contaminated food was dumped there to be sold to either the desperate or the unsuspecting.