Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great deal of hectic coupling in this film, all of it staged with chintzy tastefulness, as if the participants were being arranged for a department-store window display. The exotic Far Eastern locations make for a few postcard snaps and a lot of unintentionally hilarious dialogue. Murmurs a sapphic archaeologist setting up a rendezvous with Emmanuelle: "Come to the klongal 2." Had Terry Southern been involved, the city of Bangkok might have been the occasion for a few robust puns. But that, like much else, presumably does not translate...
...tower over shorter men. In addition, she touched a few bases that Henry missed, managing to meet with a passel of VIPs and not-so-VIPs, ranging from the Baron and Baroness Edmond de Rothschild (at a swank restaurant near Jerusalem) to Dr. Mieczyslaw Rodziewicz, a young Polish archaeologist who was working near Alexandria. She commiserated with his exasperation upon discovering a new apartment building above a potentially rich...
Glacial Age. De Lumley, a Marseille University professor, who with his archaeologist wife Marie-Antoinette has been excavating the grotto for a dozen years, bases his estimate on paleomagnetic dating of the clay in which traces of ancient man were found. During a period of warmer temperatures some 1½ million years ago, De Lumley believes, the waters of the Mediterranean rose and waves battered the hillside, enlarging the limestone grotto, and leaving the various fossilized fish, mollusks and tiny marine organisms that have been found in the cave. About 1 million years ago, the sea retreated...
...Pisco, may even have pointed the way to them, he says. But most scholars, including Reiche, flatly reject that farfetched idea; for one thing, no extraterrestrial artifacts have ever been found at the site. Scientific observers lean to a more down-to-earth explanation first proposed by the late archaeologist Paul Kosok of Long Island University, who found the drawings in 1939 while looking for ancient irrigation systems...
...Harvard archaeologist will conduct a search for historical artifacts on Boston Harbor's Castle Island before a refurbishing project begins on the island's Fort Independence sometime next year...