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...bill as finally approved covers 104.3 million acres. It provides varying degrees of environmental protection to such national treasures as Admiralty Island, the Mount McKinley area, the Gates of the Arctic National Monument, and the William O. Douglas Arctic Wildlife Range, which is a calving ground for one of the largest caribou herds in the U.S. Of this land, 56.7 million acres have been designated as wilderness where logging, mining and motorized vehicles will be outlawed. The rest of the land will be open to some development, but only under stringent environmental safeguards. Out of Alaska's total...
Lunch Hour might have been better served by a different star. Gilda Radner is referred to as a waif, and tries to mimic scatterbrained vulnerability; but it does not wash. She radiates tensile strength. If she were crossing the Arctic wastes and her Huskies died, she could and would tow the dog sled to the Pole. That invincible force happens to be wrong for this play...
McGinnis's idea is not totally original; the New Yorker's John McPhee, perhaps the most highly-praised non-fiction writer in America, travelled above the Arctic circle to find the subject matter for Coming Into the Country, his account of the Alaskan wilderness. There have been others, but McPhee was the most notable. His account was of the wild North and the wild people who lived there, full of mines and surveyors and lumberjacks and fishermen and bears...
...McGinnis, like a Studs Terkel of the Arctic, fills his latest book with the words and appearances of people: the restless, the desperate, the shifty-eyed, the rowdy, the stupid, the tough, the stubborn, the stoned and the drunk. He listens to the beery yarns, life histories, and why-we-came-to-Alaska expoundings of a motley assortment of fast dealers, Dangerous Dan McGrews, crazed clergymen, plain folks, hippies keeping warm and dry and happy snorting cocaine, bartenders, flinty newspaper editors, pipeline workers, various well-and-not-so-well-intentioned politicians, naturalists and whores. All of them seem to lean...
...fever of seedy opportunism, watching, listening, talking, poking around. He observes everything, and lets it all accumulate. He records demythologized Alaska more obnoxious and squalid than it is majestic and forbidding. Along with the peaks, glaciers, freedom and big bucks, he gives us the alcoholic cabin fever of the Arctic winter, the grimy linoleum floors of numberless joints like the Northern Saloon in Nome where half the boozers sling .357 Magnums as equipment for late night poker, and the glazy-eyed dissolution of the Eskimos who can only watch the white conquest from the alleys while hanging around getting tight...