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...well-guarded Eldorado for backpackers is a onetime gold-panning area, California's Plumas-Eureka State Park. The 4,422-sq.-mi. park nestles in the northernmost Sierras at 4,000 ft. above sea level and 80 miles north of Lake Tahoe. Glacier-carved granite peaks rise above the timberline marked by noble stands of ponderosa, Jeffrey and sugar pine; Eureka and Madora lakes sparkle in the summer sun, which even in August has not melted the mountain snows. Jamison Creek, running fast and clear through the park, is alive with half-pound rainbow and brook trout. Campers looking...
Pool Smoke. The killing shook Garrett's colleagues, but it also seemed to confirm the gossip and indicate that the attacks on the project itself were now finished. One of Garrett's friends, Donald Larsen, 37, assistant director of a similar vocational-training project in Eureka, applied to replace him at Gateway. The staffers got together to give the new director a welcoming party. As they were raising their glasses to toast the end of their troubles, smoke drifted over the nearby swimming pool. When they ran out to look, they found two of their cars burning fiercely...
...desert dominates The Passenger--it seems to sprawl everywhere except for the lush, over-cultivated scenes in England. A key to Antonioni's method, the desert offers no insights in the Eureka-gents-now-you-understand-the-movie sense. It serves, besides suggesting a million metaphorical possibilities, simply as a stage: anything Antonioni dots it with becomes the thing on which the audience must focus its attention. And so the film crawls along agonizingly, a slow methodical parade of pictures to be explored. The pace itself gives Antonioni's existential tendencies time to flower into unmistakable statements, momentary images which...
...Crimson then changes gears rather abruptly and comes up with a solution to the world's problems. Eureka! Socialism, obviously somewhat of a cause celebre on these pages, is a panacea that will save us; all we must do is "change the system," like changing from one brand of gasoline to another. This is a remarkably good example of what The Crimson has told us it abhors only a few paragraphs before--"simplistic--but useful--political analysis...
...surroundings, he was mulling over a novel about life back in humdrum Normandy, where he knew the people and spoke the language. Accord ing to Du Camp (and Steegmuller tends to believe him) it was on a barren hill overlooking the Second Cataract of the Nile that he cried: "Eureka! I will call her Emma Bovary...