Word: augusta
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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...
...carnival-like atmosphere surrounds this tournament, which gets its color from both the beauty of the course and the brightly-clad spectators. Augusta National is one of those rare golf courses that is as famous for its great difficulty as for the magnificent pines that tower over the numerous white dogwoods and banks of azelas...
...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...
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...