Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wouldn't be trying to kill my son, now would you?" ha-ha; the famous crop-duster scene in which a biplane machine-guns Grant; one scene in which Grant sneaks into an auction, and foils his pursuers by getting himself arrested for disorderly conduct; and the real cliff-hanger denouement on Mount Rushmore. Gasp. Eva Marie Saint is the woman, James Mason the heavy...
After three hours of hosing, the rock removers once again hauled on their cables. The rock budged, then began to roll, once again burst free of its cables, bounded off a 125-ft. cliff and landed with a great crash on the Pacific Coast Highway, just 50 ft. from Radnitz's house. From the crowd, a mighty cheer arose...
...your-voice booth; Janis Joplin, desperate to please, sings blues with the synthetic soul of a Broadway belter; Linda Ronstadt's coy version of a great Jagger-Richards tune might more appropriately be retitled Fumbling Dice. Thoughts of decadence and decline occur; Donna Summer appears. But then Jimmy Cliff shows up, singing The Harder They Come, and the balance is redressed. By the time the show ends, with a flourish from Elvis Costello and a blast from Bruce Springsteen, you know the future is in good hands...
Though this insight is urgent, the au thor never belabors it. Instead of preaching about interdependence, Janovy celebrates the simple delights of a naturalist: discovering a creek full of snails or a marsh full of flies, observing a colony of birds and musing that "the individual cliff swallow is the philosophical equivalent of a single cell of the multicellular colony-organism," realizing that every good biologist must also be a philosopher. "The biologist," he concludes, "approaches nature in the form of a plant or animal and immediately begins asking questions about the innermost soul, the innermost characteristics, the true spectrum...
Princeton, meanwhile, graduated masochistic netminder Fred Cherne, the man who beat the Crimson last year, and has no one to take his place. Nevertheless, the squad does have some proven performers in Craig Tresham, Trevor Kilburn, Peter DeLorey, and Cliff Lawrick...