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...Palma's Obsession was a remake of Vertigo, and the prom scene in Carrie suffused its heroine in a mood of crimson romanticism. Blow Out, for all its borrowings from political and cinematic fact and fancy, is one more story of an obsessive idealist lost in a lush forest of intrigue...
...mature female can produce 1,000 eggs over its two-month life span. Last week alone, the targeted area expanded from 120 to 140 to 180 sq. mi. and fears mounted that the fly was about to break out of the Bay Area and move into the lush farm lands of the San Joaquin Valley. The long-range worry: a federal quarantine, which would cripple the state's $14 billion farm industry and send produce prices soaring all over the U.S. Five states-Texas, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and South Carolina -have already announced bans on most California fruit, unless...
...Ogden Nash Perhaps one reason was to test Jerry Brown. Last week, as swarms of voracious Mediterranean fruit flies in northern California threatened to bring a nationwide ban on shipments of fruits and vegetables from California's lush orchards and farm lands, the Democratic Governor faced one of the toughest decisions of his political career: whether to bow to California's $14 billion-a-year agriculture industry, which grows 40% of U.S. produce, or heed the angry voices of environmentalists, who have looked upon him as one of their chief political allies...
Episodes from a late-night horror flick? Not at all. More like cinema verite. Once again, the Northeast has been infested by gypsy-moth caterpillars in record numbers. Last year the bugs chomped so voraciously through more than 5 million acres of woodland that the usually lush summer landscape looked as leafless as in late fall. This year's damage, patchily extending from northern Maine to Maryland and beyond, is far worse: an estimated 11 million acres of forest, an area larger than all of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island...
...Palace dressed in a plain, dark flannel suit and a red tie. On hand to greet him at the top of the steps of the presidential palace was Giscard, who, after a brief handshake, took his successor to his old corner office, overlooking the Elysée's lush gardens. There the two politicians remained closeted for a 45-minute colloquy that symbolized the transfer of presidential power...