Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavyweight crew--Harvard and Navy--sat steadily on the glassy surface of the Severn River in Annapolis, poised for the start of their long-awaited showdown. Less than six minutes later, Navy was vanquished, and only Yale remained between the Crimson and uncontested rowing supremacy this side of the Mississippi...
...carrot-colored hair peeked out from under a floppy fishing hat, and his bare feet dragged in the muddy water as he and Huck Finn floated lazily down the river on a makeshift wooden raft. Nothing could have been more American-only the river was not the Mississippi; it was the Dnieper. And the actor playing Tom Sawyer was freckle-faced Fedya Stukov, 9, from Moscow...
Govorukhin, who is known for his television productions of literary classics, discovered that the lush banks of the Dnieper were a mirror of the Mississippi valley. Casting Tom and Huck, however, took months. In the book, Tom and Huck are adolescents, but Govorukhin decided to use younger boys because, he felt, "we live in an era of age acceleration. Today's twelve-and 14-year-olds are thinking about discos and sports rather than playing pirates and Indians...
...text. When Huck wakes Tom for their midnight expedition to the graveyard, Tom opens his bedroom window by pulling the lower pane upward. There are no such windows in the Soviet Union, so Govorukhin studied 19th century American architecture and had his carpenters build an American-style window. Mississippi steamboats were also in short supply, so Govorukhin instructed his carpenters to construct a replica, atop a barge, replete with lacy white railings, two smoking black chimneys and an American flag flapping at the stern...
Publisher Joseph Pulitzer began his career west of the Mississippi, at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but for years there have been grumblings about an Eastern bias in the coveted awards he endowed. In 1980 the Los Angeles Times made that claim at length in a report by its press writer David Shaw. Indeed, from 1972 through 1981, papers west of the Mississippi won only 17 of 112 Pulitzer Prizes...