Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...riding the waves, surfboards may forever be the favorite vehicle in Malibu, but Arizonans prefer inner tubes. The car or truck tubes rent for $6.25 a day at the Salt River recreation area outside Phoenix. Somewhat more economically, up at the Heady-Ashburn cattle ranch in Arizona's Sonoran Desert, Sonny and Nancy McCuistion and their two hired hands head for the cow troughs. "The cows are a little surprised at first, but they're gentle," says Nancy. "Of course when you get out, it feels funny riding back in wet Levi...
...recently as 1987, the country had partly exempted itself from the CITES treaty in order to maintain imports of 14 endangered species, more than any other nation. Since then, Japan has reduced this number to eleven by agreeing to ban trade in the green sea turtle, musk deer and desert monitor lizard...
...January, 27 members of Congress, some with wives and children, left the cold of Washington for the sun of the California desert courtesy of the tobacco industry. Off they flew, at about $1,000 per round-trip ticket, and stayed at the luxurious Hyatt Grand Champions Resort, where suites go for $300 a night, the greens fees are prepaid, and meals are included. In addition to expenses, most legislators got spending money -- $1,000 to $2,000 -- for participating in one of three 90-minute panel discussions that ended at 11:30 a.m. each day so members could...
Marlane Meyer's The Geography of Luck, on another stage at the same theater, is an adroitly crafted portrait of assorted drifters, losers and desert rats that starts out sourly Sam Shepardesque yet ends in an eerie and touching echo of Saroyan's affirmative The Time of Your Life. But Roberta Levitow, normally a talented director, gave every scene the same pace and texture and allowed the frequent scene changes to dissipate energy and tension. Fortunately for Meyer, a staging under different direction is planned for this summer at Los Angeles Theater Center...
...about global warming set 50 to 75 years in the future, may air later this year; TNT will broadcast Incident at Dark River, about a father who learns that toxic dumping has killed his child. When writer-director David Zucker (Airplane!) % visited a solar-power plant in the Mojave Desert, he was inspired to drop a message into his script for The Naked Gun II. "A love affair is like the ozone layer," says Lieut. Frank Drebin. "You only miss it when it's gone...