Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pedal-rickshaws, and jeeps, today there are American station wagons, driven by American housewives of USAID employees, often with American children jumping around on the back seat. Driving down the main Boulevard paved with U.S. concrete, in their air-conditioned Ford Country Squire, they seem oblivious to the heat, dust, and squalor surrounding them...
...received thousands of applications, many from out of state, including a number from Oklahomans who fled to California during the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. Many Viet Nam veterans applied, along with at least one out-of-work aerospace engineer. Despite the trend toward agribusiness, there is a widespread nostalgia for the land. Another applicant is a $190-a-week television film editor who lives in a suburb of Boston. "It's a chance for me to work at something that would be my very own," he wrote. "I'm sick of pollution, demonstrations and riots...
...C.I.A. has managed to hook up synthesizers with laser beams and visual generators with a wit and sophistication worthy of Audio-animaltronics. Indeed many of the courses have the playfulness of a Disneyland attraction not to mention the awesomeness. The art school for example, offers the House Of Dust course. The class works with a House Of Dust sculpture, which is made from five tons of fiberglass. Allan Kaprou, originator of the Happening, gives a course on happenings, which is a happening. Several others give Multi-Media Laboratory II, which utilizes cinema, synthesizers, strobe lights, and projectors in combination with...
...Wodehouse has reached the ripe age of ninety, and according to the list Simon and Schuster give us. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds is his seventy-fifth book. He started writing at about the same time as Joyce or, say, about the time Mark Twain died. The dust-jacket photograph shows Mr. Wodehouse touching his toes without bending his knees--something I have yet to be able to do. He is a remarkable...
...spherical body. Finally, a burst from the ship's retrorocket provided additional crucial braking for the landing. After only 20 seconds on the surface, however, the lander's TV camera stopped sending signals. Soviet scientists speculated that either the ship sank so deep into Martian dust that it was almost buried or the high winds of the current Martian dust storm sent it crashing into an outcropping of rock...