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...water supply. Recently passed laws give the state government firmer control of future land and water use and bar any development in areas where wildlife would be disturbed or natural resources threatened. Yet state officials do not really want to discourage population growth and new building. For all the glitter of its resorts, many parts of Florida-particularly in the Northern Panhandle and interior rural areas-are poor. Fully 37% of the state's families live on an income below the poverty line. The new rush of development should help to lift many of them...
David Brower, the wild-haired druid, ecologist and outdoorsman who guided the Sierra Club during its rise to national prominence as a scourge of dam builders and redwood cutters, is the subject. The glitter in such a man's eyes can make it difficult to get a clear look at him, but McPhee had the happy notion of confronting Brower with three of his ideological enemies on threatened terrain-Glacier Peak Wilderness in the state of Washington, Georgia's Cumberland Island and finally, on a raft trip down the Colorado River. In the process Brower and his antagonists...
Many critics talk about Fitzgerald's need to sprinkle glitter over experience, to paint life with a little gold brush. They accuse him of shallowness and superficiality, but his version of reality is so consistent and alluring that it seems more like a grand delusion...
...Youth Division. With Brock on the advisory committee are ten Republican Congressmen primarily in their 30s and 40s, among them former Pro Quarterback Jack Kemp. A celebrity committee, including My Three Sons Star Stanley Livingston and Miami Dolphin Linebacker Nick Buoniconti, has been set up to provide the glitter for rallies and letterheads...
True Amalgam. An evening at City Opera does not alway glitter with great singing stars, although in Bass Norman Treigland and Soprano Sills the company possesses two of the finest voices in the world. But Rudel's shows are rarely dull. Because he believes that "open should be a true amalgam of the visual and musical," he was steering City Opera toward total theater long before the term became fashionable. He hired such experienced directors as Frank Corsaro and Tito Capobianco, and gave then free dramatic rein. In those hands even old familiars like Gounod's Faust became...