Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presentation of poetry within self-serving, academic literary circles. Chicago's success was an inspiration for performance artists in other cities who had been moving in the same direction, opposing the ruling power of published poets and poetry critics. As slam culture spread, most notably to San Francisco, New York, and Boston, it wasn't long before the first National Poetry Slam...
Otherwise, trips to San Francisco to see "Miss Saigon" happen two or three times per 10-week quarter. Opportunities to visit Yosemite or Lake Tahoe happen just as often. Day trips to Monterey Bay, local shopping malls and other area attractions are extremely common, but again, you'll need a car or to know someone who has one. For those not so lucky, Palo Alto offers little more than upscale cafes and restaurants to take your date to before a semi-formal or swing party...
...Reported by Rachele Kanigel/San Francisco and Dick Thompson/Washington
...early 1996, Lucas invited a few trusted souls from Industrial Light & Magic, his 14-Oscar-winning special-effects unit, up to his Skywalker Ranch, north of San Francisco, and showed them 3,500 storyboards for the new film. Battle scenes, racing scenes, parades--all with thousands of characters in each shot and all to be computer generated. "Crew members said, 'It's too many shots. How are we going to do this?'" recalls ILM visual-effects supervisor John Knoll. "It was kind of scary...
...those special minds that succeed with both the particular and the general, with individual and collaborative pursuits. His boyhood in San Francisco was spent roving vacant lots, searching for specimens. An only child, he began growing caterpillars into butterflies at the age of six. At eight he became a student member of the California Academy of Sciences. At 12 he joined the Sierra Club. At 15 he discovered a member of the heather family, a Presidio manzanita, which had not been seen for 50 years. This subspecies, Ravenii, was later named for him. He did his undergraduate work at Berkeley...