Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failed to ram through legislation that would have facilitated timber cutting in the Tongass National Forest. In California the Clinton Administration reached an agreement that would protect Headwaters, a privately owned grove of ancient redwoods that has been the focus of protests for years. And in Maine voters moved closer to imposing controls on clear-cutting in a state where timber interests own almost half the land...
...certainly looks like war, as you turn a corner into heavy fire. Several combatants are blasting away in an alcove just beyond your reach. You move closer, annihilating one warrior and zeroing in on a second. Then you sense a presence over your right shoulder. Before you can turn to defend yourself, however, the scene on the screen lurches and topples. You've fallen, and you aren't getting up, as the line across the top of the screen makes clear: "Reviser is pierced by Grrrl's nail gun." Again...
...prosperity it once represented, this most visible example of that skepticism must not fail. It is comforting to know that somewhere in America, a town which embodies both our nostalgia and our quest for progress looks toward the future. Maybe Disney can help bring life a little bit closer to what we would like to imagine...
Nevertheless, Harvard still appears to have a stronger team. If the Crimson can contain Cornell threats Jenna Terranova and Jen Dales the Crimson will move even closer to a tournament berth, which is foremost in the minds of Harvard players...
...whatever the symbolism of his later abstraction, perhaps Stieglitz's greatest accomplishment lies closer to home: his stunning series of portraits of his wife, O'Keeffe (1917-1937). Applying a knowing eye yet avoiding any familiar pithiness, Stieglitz brings out the distinctions of O'Keeffe's personality just enough for us to be curious for more. Now from a side view, now with her hands placed carefully to her neck, O'Keeffe's face across her life lies before...