Word: deserts
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Towards the end of the film, Gaxiola travels to see Christo's yellow umbrellas in the Southwest desert. He strides into the beautiful hills as he loads his paintgun. As he prepares to deface the umbrellas with a vigilante's red paint (a scene Blank does not film), he explains that it isn't that he doesn't respect Christo. Rather, he is "trying to becomes part of the history of his umbrellas." This type of language punctuates the otherwise campy (and fun) side of Gaxiola's personality with the happy result of widening the intellectual scope of the documentary...
There's something thrillingly voyeuristic about discovering that a well-known Tammany Hall politician was actually a woman who fooled her cronies and two wives, or finding out what T.E. Laurence was really doing in the Arabian desert...
...office last Friday, preparing to celebrate with an evening of song at the Carlyle Hotel. Someone else would be singing, but that didn't matter. She gazed at a pair of landscapes on her wall--moody paintings of a squall blowing a shaft of rain across the desert--by Peter Hurd, a LIFE artist during World War II. The canvases "were just found in a closet, years and years ago," Felsher says. What would have happened had no one been there to protect them? Happily for us, Elaine...
When the time came for blast-off, there was no big clock ticking off a countdown--just a deep voice that suddenly said, "Zazhiganiye [ignition]." As the white Soyuz rocket soared up over the brown Kazakh desert, it flew into a new era of space exploration, transforming one of the 20th century's fiercest rivalries into a partnership for the 21st century. Thagard, 51, became the first American to be shot into space aboard a Russian launcher. And after a two-day ride on the Soyuz, the physician-astronaut became the first American to take up residence...
...Iraq. Perry has warned repeatedly in recent days ofIran's military stockpile, including anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles, near the mouth of the Gulf. He had not previously mentioned chemical weapons.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays Perry is determined to show Iran and Iraq that the U.S. will not desert its Gulf allies if they come under attack...