Word: interior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court decision is forcing Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus to try to bring back the old homesteader. In August, Andrus announced that 1 million acres of federally irrigated farm land in 18 Western states would be redistributed in a national lottery on the homestead principle of 160 acres for a farmer and each member of his family. The Andrus proposal caused outrage throughout the West. Particularly shaken up were the owners of the enormous "factories of the fields" in areas like California's Imperial Valley, one of the largest food baskets...
...patient, a divorced interior decorator named Diane Strom, complained about anxiety from constant financial problems. Netherton saw in her a fear that no one would help her. Sure enough, while reliving her birth, Strom struggled helplessly with the umbilical cord, which was wrapped around her neck. In another situation, living back in 1801 on a farm in the South, she saw her son trampled by a horse, then ran into town looking for aid but could not find any. Past-lives therapists believe that these encounters with old traumas help patients to understand, and thus deal with, their present problems...
...costumes--although extraordinary--don't help. The nearly two-dimensional sets, done entirely in black, white and grays, with exhilaratingly high ceilings, grotesque details and bat motifs everywhere, are certainly fascinating; but despite all this marvelous Gorey-esqueness, you just have to wonder. Given the characters taste in interior decoration (bats patterned on pillows, wallpaper, paneling and balustrades), just why do the Sewards find vampires so peculiar? Something smacks of self-indulgence...
...banners stretched across the dark, wooden interior. One read, "Ali Must Fall." The other proclaimed, "Earnie Shavers, Heavyweight Champ...
Such an appeal would not be easy to win. The Carter Administration has been tightening procedures in an effort to eliminate many of the objections that have led environmentalists to oppose offshore drilling. Before the Interior Department will issue commercial drilling permits, it requires all companies that discover offshore oil to file a special environmental-impact statement covering matters like how the oil will be landed ashore. Also, Interior has created a 60-day review period after it announces a decision to offer offshore leases, in order to give states time to judge the impact on their shorelines and forward...