Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, Linda continued to do what was expected of her. She put in a season as a debutante in Tucson and a semester at the University of Arizona. "The big goals with the girls I grew up with were going into a convent or getting married," she says. "I never wanted either one. I just wanted to go on the road." When she was 18, she left home and headed for Los Angeles to crash in the same house as a guitar player named Bob Kimmel...
...appointment of Bird, a tall Arizona-born, Berkeley-trained lawyer and close political confidante of Brown's, that is causing a stir. The California Trial Lawyers Association hailed her nomination as "one of the most significant acts" of the Brown administration. But others are not so sure...
Safety Valve. But weather modification could also prove to be a mixed blessing. Ray Davis, a University of Arizona law professor, says rainmaking could be considered a form of "cloud rustling" and believes that diverting another nation's or state's cloud system could be construed as illegal diversion of its water. Says Davis, "If one country causes environmental harm to another, there is liability." He also cautions that weather modification could become a form of warfare, enabling hostile countries to cause droughts or floods in the lands of their enemies...
According to Fell the Pima Indians of the Southwest speak a Semitic tongue acquired from Iberian Punic colonists who came 2500 years ago, and the Zunis of Arizona speak a language derived directly from Libyan, with a vocabulary composed of elements from Coptic, Middle Egyptian, and Nubian...
...humanity--but this film ranks as the French director's most endearing work. For once Renior lets us unabashedly sympathize with his protagonist, a dreamy, doe-eyed printer who stays up nights writing hack Westerns. The corrupt, sybaritic publishing boss closes his eyes to the printer's serial, "The Arizona Kid," and monopolizes the woman who the poor dreamer worships from afar. But Renoir slips a little social message into the revenge against this meany; the printer and his fellow workers triumph by taking over and collectivizing the printing shop, bringing the "Arizona" serial to predictible fame and fortune...