Word: mesas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sidles up beside you to let you share her scrapbook, you can't help but understand. Liz Renay will always be, at heart, the fifteen-year old bargirl from Mesa, Arizona, astounded by her success so far, but nonetheless always wanting more. Not that she shouldn't be amazed. She has every right to be proud for she's proven tough enough to survive the men who've picked her up and used her along the way--from New York to Los Angeles--even though she's hardly about to resist those who'll pick...
...lost onto the vision we see them, the clouds now whiter and still moving the sun now higher the light, now above the mountains, has moved from eclipse to sharper distinction, less peaceful stasis pinon-you smell it as everything around you clouds and light moving across the mesa the highway lost as a thirsting arroyo, brief and fearful potential, one can run across any land easiest in the arroyos-the length greater, but the water does it because it is the only way-if not meander, then a tacking against and with gravity, for the integrity of the land...
...always in sun, always grateful for the light and warmth and presence. When that dawn joins the silence of birds calling for miles clear through the valleys, deer in the shadow of mountain eclipse, before the sun is over; and then a band of light the length of the mesa, a light which descends to the simple base of earth as sun moves into higher brightness...
...having written about the sunrise of New Mexico, it becomes impossible to elaborate. It is not real-days and nights on a mesa-the warmth and meaning of the sun when clouds brought the chill of the altitude. Some have wondered why Indians with histories of peace lived on mesas when water had to be carried from the valleys around...
Bathtub Sofas. "I pick up usable trash," says Hugo Mesa, a commercial designer in Los Angeles. "It's all potential pollution." In his hands, a discarded beer barrel becomes a leather-slung chair, old railroad ties turn into thick benches, tin cans take on new life as lamps. "Salvaged waste has value," agrees George Korper, proprietor of the Eco-Center store in Greenwich, Conn., which sells things like telephone-cable spools as $2 patio tables. Going one better, Mrs. Jerrald Dixon of Crown Point, Ind., makes "Old Woman in the Shoe" table centerpieces with plaster figures and her husband...