Word: canyonize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immortal in Lipstick. Cleaning up is not easy, either. Only this spring has the Park Service figured out how to cope with the problem of Box Canyon. Box Canyon, in Mount Rainier National Park, contains such a remarkable example of glacial action that in 1957 the park ran a blacktop trail into the canyon and put up a marker calling attention to the phenomenon...
...could easily be inscribed with personal data, and within no time there was a 300-ft.-long sweep of modern hieroglyphics. Last summer the first of the four-letter words appeared, to be followed by such a flood of pornographic graffiti that the better Boy Scout leaders struck Box Canyon off their lists of educational outings...
Sandblasting is no solution; it leaves behind it a whitened area that merely invites a new literary effort. But a new technique has now been devised, which combines light sandblasting with a stain made of umber and regional soils, and Box Canyon will soon look almost the way it did before-with the addition of a fence to keep the public at arm's length...
Film Travel Club usually leaves the beautiful propaganda to others and concentrates on natural wonders, like the Grand Canyon, or exotic people in remote, politically inoffensive settings. "We'll show anything that holds people's interest," says Senkevich, whose TV style can best be described as low-key. "What interests them most of all is mysterious tribes, like the Australian aborigines or peoples that live along the Amazon...
...City Council tabled the issue last night, after it appeared neither the developers, who favor a zoning proposal to allow greater height, nor the local residents, who fear a "canyon of buildings," had enough votes to win a council fight...