Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign of 20th century amenities is a spate of television aerials atop most of the homes. "They tried to buy us with television," says one of the local strike leaders, who would identify himself only with the nom de guerre Hossein. "My father used to tell us about this land with tears in his eyes. When I first heard about Khomeini a year and a half ago, I knew that he spoke to my generation. Khomeini is the only guarantor of the Iranian people, their interests and their land. Now we have power, and we are going...
Stoves and furnaces are selling well in New England because so much wood is available near by. Many regions of the U.S. are heavily timbered, but New England is unique: more than three-fourths of its forest land is owned by individuals, often in plots of less than ten acres. That has made it difficult for lumber and paper companies to come in and negotiate logging contracts, and much of the wilderness has become overgrown with low-grade timber of little commercial value. The New England Regional Commission, an economic development group, puts the total energy content of the area...
Uprooting so many people and stripping away their land would be far more difficult in the U.S., where companies have traditionally been able to take over private land only when they are building railroads, natural gas pipelines, power lines and other essential facilities. But under West Germany's 1950 Brown Coal Act, the only coal company in the Triangle, Rheinische Braunkohlenwerke (commonly called Rheinbraun), can evict homeowners as part of a national policy designed to meet energy needs...
...earth and twisted roots of the Midi, the Matisses latent in every curlicued balcony in Nice. In the same way, Cornwall is Ben Nicholson's territory. Insistently, and often without depicting landscape at all, his paintings have altered several generations of responses to that green ledge of land, shelved with granite and glittering in marine air, where the south of England finishes in the Atlantic...
...through English art surfaced again in Nicholson soon after 1939, when he went to live in Cornwall. The mild light of the peninsula, sometimes as crystalline as the Aegean, and its rolling, antique contours of moorland and coast, recur in hundreds of drawings and dozens of still-life and land scape paintings. Nicholson's favorite motif was that of the cubist Juan Gris: a view of objects on a table, vases, mugs, jugs, bowls, with a fragment of landscape seen through an open window behind, the two worlds - exterior and interior - compressed into a single overlapping image. Nothing...