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Since that chance discovery in the summer of 1974, the Love homestead has become a landmark in North American paleontology. In seven years of excavation, Webb and his students have dug up-from what has been dubbed the Love Bone Bed-bits and pieces of more than 100 species of animals, many of them long extinct. All date back to the late Miocene epoch, about 9 million years ago. Among the finds: saber-toothed tigers, four-tusked mastodons, a giant camel some 18 ft. high, an extinct raccoon as big as a bear, various ancient horses and dogs...
...cost of the camps ranges between $300 and $400 per week. Though these campers may be more computer-wise than their peers, they have not entirely abandoned tradition. Epidemics of short-sheeting coexist with robotics and PASCAL. And, like campers everywhere, eleven-year-old Evan Katzman of Homestead, Fla., is quick to give a visitor the classic rating of camp food. Says he: "It's the pits...
Heaven's Gate is not "an unqualified disaster." Cimino has discovered that cameras move, so, unlike The Deer Hunter, his new movie isn't almost entirely composed of long and medium shots with the camera staring. There are some exhilirating, sweeping pans of the vast homestead and interesting tracking through the streets of Casper, Wyo. In two parallel scenes--a waltz in Harvard Yard (it's actually Oxford) at the beginning of the film and a party at the Heaven's Gate Skating Arena in Wyoming--Cimino's camera moves with a lovely, fluid grace, catching...
...earlier. Said Republican Governor James Thompson of Illinois: "A lot of people, the so-called silent majority, went into the voting booths and said. 'To hell with it, I'm not going to reward four years of faliure.'" One telling incident: in the mill town of Homestead, Pa., half a dozen steelworkers cheered Ron Weisen, president of Local 1397, as he told a reporter that he was voting for Regan. Said Weisen: "Carter ignored us for 3½ years, and now he comes around asking for our votes. Well, he's not getting them." Nearby...
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