Word: cliff
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...common shot places a figure in the extreme foreground and the extreme background. Women run or walk tensely down long, narrow hall-ways that force the gaze nearly through the plane of the movie screen. The camera leans over a rocky cliff, peering over men's shoulders to a search party far below. Sandro looks over his shoulder to a women standing in front of a painting who turns to look...
...buzz of helicopters and small planes carrying sightseers. The number of air passengers has doubled since 1987, to 800,000. On the busiest routes through the canyon, an aircraft streaks by about once every 90 seconds, which has created a noise level that harasses wildlife and threatens fragile cliff formations. Congress has restricted the flyover areas to about half the canyon, but the National Park Service and the Federal Aviation Administration are devising regulations to limit noise and air traffic even further...
Eighty-seven Republican House members demanded the resignation of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders two days after she peppered reporters with statements about "the un-Christian religious right." In a letter to President Clinton, Florida Representative Cliff Stearns, other lawmakers and spokespersons for right-wing Christian groups said Elders "has not chosen to utilize her position to advance the general health and welfare of all Americans but rather to advocate views antithetical to the majority of citizens." Among the Surgeon General's more provocative statements, in the past seven days: the legalization of narcotics should be considered, and girls should take...
...think so. His wife may not think so. But Bill Clinton has been having a great sweeps month, caught up in scandals, scrapes and cliff-hangers just like the networks. Unlike the networks, however, the President may not find this kind of programming to be good for his ratings...
...Bennett says. It probably helps his case that a covey of Clinton haters have been the biggest promoters of the Jones story. Jones first made her charges during a February press conference at a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, to which she was brought by Cliff Jackson, a Little Rock lawyer and full-time Enemy of Bill...