Word: augusta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AUGUSTA, Ga--The galleries at the Augusta National Golf Course, the site of the famed Masters Golf Tournament, do not really care that Tommy Aaron, the local Georgia favorite, won the tournament or that Jack Nicklaus finished two back or ten back. They came to relax in the warm April sun and beautiful flowered setting and watch a spectacle that just happened to be golf...
...Augusta, Me., last week, the state legislature began considering a bill that would control industrial development of the scenic coastline to prevent environmental damage. The measure has already stirred heated controversy throughout the state, but it has drawn little attention elsewhere, although one section of the bill may have effects far beyond the shores of Maine. It bans the establishment of deepwater oil ports anywhere in the state except Portland, where the existing port is already operating at capacity...
Whimsical, quirky, sensuous Aunt Augusta is Henry's last chance at life. For he has risked nothing, suffered nothing, lost loved, given nothing, dreamed nothing. Travelling, both to Istanbul and into Aunt Augusta's past, is Henry's initiation into life. As this provincial survives one mindblower after another, stiff primness relaxes into tolerance. Augusta tells him that his legal mother was in fact a virgin, Wordsworth substitutes that woman's ashes with cannabis, he is accosted by whores in a sleazy Paris nightclub while a stripper twirls platinum coated nipples in the spotlights. Aunt Augusta is Henry's wicked...
Cukor is proselytizing for the style of the good old days but he knows full well its illusions. He only half-heartedly retreats into a past he cannot believe in. As his camera traipses gaily through the scenes of Aunt Augusta's youth, lighting it in rich rose colors and tuning it to a soundtrack of syrupy violins, he risks distending what should be entertainment into statement...
...girl. Her father is in the CIA, her boyfriend a pop artist, and she can talk of nothing but the fact that her period is late and whom among her countless bedmates could the culprit be? Then Henry sleeps with her. The girl is a modern version of Aunt Augusta stripped of the illusions. She faces facts with the same irresponsible gaiety in which Aunt Augusta cloaked her dreams. It is a bare-faced present, made out to have all the substance of the past with none of its style...