Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this month, but the Government will not force any of the Navajo to move until new houses can be built for them. Yet a cloud of paranoia darkens Big Mountain. Many Navajo believe their relocation is the result of a conspiracy between the Government and energy companies eager to mine the reservation's riches. Meanwhile, Danny Blackgoat has decided to move back to Big Mountain. He wants to be near his mother and rebuild an abandoned hogan, the traditional Navajo dwelling of juniper logs and mud. His mother, stoic and unyielding, welcomes the support. "The Creator," she vows...
Some say we should reject assimilation. A friend of mine questions why the newest generation of New York Jews wants to attend Harvard. If we all just went to City College like our parents did we would be in just as good an educational environment and we would not have to sell out and become part of America's dominant class and its aristocracy, he argues...
...recent years are more, well, eye-catching. A fleet of rebel spaceships enters the Death Star for a climactic battle against the Empire's forces in Return of the Jedi. The shards of a stained-glass window are transformed into a sword-wielding knight in Young Sherlock Holmes. Runaway mine cars career at a breakneck pace through hairbreadth twists and turns in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
Despite its high-tech tools, ILM uses homey techniques as well. Clouds might be simulated by wads of cotton, the dirt on a remote planet by a pile of cork. The walls of the mine in Indiana Jones were made of scrunched-up aluminum foil, spray-painted to look like rocks. "We have no commitment to using the most sophisticated techniques," says Warren Franklin, ILM's general manager. "We go with what works...
...Ellis Clark's dad Stanley, who installs 737 flight-control cables. Says he: "I watch something come in one door as thousands of parts and roll out the other door as a ready-to-fly airplane. There's a great satisfaction to that. I can say, 'That baby is mine...