Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credit, Altman has found a realistic landscape, the Southern California desert, that is also a very persuasive analogue to a dream landscape-essentially empty, so that it throws its few symbolic structures into high relief. And the film's three title characters have the air of dream works about them. Tantalizingly, even hilariously real some of the time in speech and manner, they yet manage to drift away, eluding the grasp of understanding...
...dealer and Carradine's petulant artiste. With one noteworthy exception, each of the ten central figures goes in search of a human connection, and each comes up empty-handed (if only in the figurative sense). Move over Teenage Wasteland, the film says, and make way for an equally parched desert peopled with men and women who are a bit older but no less confused and frustrated than the Who's quadrophenic...
...scenario could be repeated endlessly: elk hunting in Montana, oil prospecting in Alaska, a quail shoot in Mexico, a social-cum-business bash in the Mojave Desert, a sales spiel atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The H-H passenger rides high above smog and speed limits, encounters no parking problems, and gets farther from the madding crowd than a hyperthyroid hermit with climbing irons...
DEEP WELLS. By sinking wells, Egyptian geologists are attempting to tap the vast underground reservoirs that are believed to lie beneath the Western Desert, some of them as much as 1,200 meters (4,000 ft.) below the sand. "Getting at this water," says Egyptian Geologist Rushdi Said, "will make it possible for man to again live in the desert." But only for a while. Filled at the rate of only millimeters a year, these reservoirs of fossil waters are replenished so slowly that for all practical purposes their contents are finite. Though they may yield water for centuries...
Died. Al Bramlet, 59, powerful boss of the Las Vegas local of the Culinary Workers Union since 1952; found shot, in a rock pile in the desert, 30 miles from Las Vegas. A wheeler-dealer with enemies even in his own union, Bramlet ran into trouble when he brewed up a new scheme with the Mob to skim money from the union's pension fund. Two weeks after the fund's trustees vetoed the idea, Bramlet disappeared (TIME, March...