Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treaty to the Indians--cover approximately 90 per cent of the uranium reserves and 50 per cent of energy resources. The vast uranium fields of both the south-western United States as well as Northern Brazil are inhabited principally by native people. Native people have lived harmoniously with the earth in the Americas for over 60,000 years, and now the economic interests of the industrial world demand to rape the earth for energy progress and promise little to the Indians in return...
...been most successful in human rights abuse. South American governments follow the North American lead; documents show their concern for human rights to be a travesty. Indigenous populations are unified. Colonialism is destined to lose the battle for land to the peoples and cultures that are native to this earth...
Look at it this way: If you were God and chose to manifest yourself on earth, wouldn't you give serious consideration to appearing as George Burns? The man has always had a quietly authoritative air about him-a realist who has somehow avoided the trap of cynicism. Better still, he is one of the rare comedians who have never begged an audience for sympathy (a business as fatal to comic belief as it is to divine belief). Burns maintains a reserve, a dignity that must surely be appreciated in heaven, if only because of its increasing rarity here...
Casting Burns in the title role of this film is inspired in the largest sense of the word. He is a God more irritated than wrathful-no showy thunderbolts from him. Rather, he is the sort who might decide to make his presence on earth known not to Billy Graham, but to an assistant manager of a supermarket in Tarzana, Calif. It even seems natural for him to pass among us in fishing cap, Windbreaker and see-through plastic raincoat. His style reinforces one of the film's basic points: we place too much emphasis on status these days...
...disturbingly similar to the game of Go. And the black Anaclea taludensis flowers, defiers of the laws of perspective -they shrink as the visitor approaches, then expand as he withdraws. The Giraluna germinates from a point somewhere above the ground; its roots grow down toward but never into the earth. The Artisia is "nonorganic and very likely of human origin." This plant, covered with whirligigs, curlicues and other designs associated with 18th century Baroque, bears a strong resemblance to the productions of certain modern artists. Artisia Calderii recalls the work of the late American sculptor Alexander Calder; Artisia Arpii shows...