Word: caving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photo opportunities were substantive: President Reagan aboard a skipjack on Chesapeake Bay; a windblown Reagan atop an observation tower at Maryland's Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge; Reagan touring Mammoth Cave National Park, posing amid the stalactites in the world's most extensive cave system. Reagan was again embarked on one of his "theme" weeks, this one designed, somewhat awkwardly, to create an image as a champion of environmental concerns. Yet even a top aide admitted that the conservationist crusade "was a little thin," and environmentalists howled that it was also loose with the truth...
...employees because of Reagan's budget cuts, and work has been completed on only 120 of the nation's 7,000 hazardous waste sites since he took office. Said Adrienne Weissman of the Sierra Club: "He must think we've been living in a cave, while he has waged a 3½ -year war on the environment." For the first time in its 14-year history, the League of Conservation Voters, a political-action committee with representatives from major environmental groups, will spend money on a presidential campaign; it has lined up $200,000 worth of radio...
Some young people who live in a cave came in. They were Kyle and Jill Ingram and their children, Tony and Erik, and their friends, Donald Loenichen and Kimberly Kerr, who are engaged. "We're just basically into self-sufficiency," said Kyle...
...nuts. We want to live in both worlds." He said the cave was an eighth of a mile long and had "nice vaulted ceilings...
...concern us here. Suffice it to say that the new film is more an embellishment than an improvement on the snazzy Raiders. If you enjoyed seeing skeletons rise on spikes, or Indy snap his trusty bullwhip around a steel-willed woman, or the two of them trapped in a cave with uggy crawling things, you should be amused to see them again. Again you will savor the Indiana Jones schizophrenia: by day a bow-tied, bespectacled archaeologist; by night a resourceful swaggerer, whom Ford brings to life as a modern blend of Bogie and the Duke, with just a glint...