Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Water. After working long morning hours under a high desert sun Wayne would retire to his mobile-home dressing room for a siesta. Kate dunked herself in the icy water of a nearby mountain stream. "Spencer Tracy and John Ford also took lunchtime naps," she said. "My God, it must be exhausting being a strong man." Apparently it is not exhausting being Kate Hepburn. The grips, sound men and other technicians on the set have been doing Wayne pictures for years and are devoted to their man. Most of them display bumper stickers on their cars reading: GOD BLESS JOHN...
...York's Brice Marden. Rockburne's art is neither painting nor collage nor relief, but it has some of the qualities of all three-coupled with the kind of inventive intelligence one expects from one of Rauschenberg's contemporaries at the legendary, now defunct Black Mountain College. Starting with a rectangle of linen exactly 68 in. by 178 in., she folds, sizes and gessoes it until it becomes a geometrical plaque. "I had wanted," she writes, "to approach painting in a way that takes as given certain conventions while questioning others." The convention she rejected was that...
...living memory. The men and women who were alive a hundred or fifty or five years ago were the characters and the audience for the dramas we are trying to breathe life back into today. The testimony of these men and women is both invaluable and unique--a mountain of statistics and doctoral theses has no more legitimacy and is often far less enlightening than a single Dorothea Lange photograph of an Appalachian mother or a waitress musing into Studs Terkel's tape recorder about the joys of serving tables...
...DOESN'T TAKE a mountain of statistics to decide whether or not to support the UFW boycott against grapes, lettuce, Gallo wine, and Harvard Provision. All it takes is a little reason...
...addition, the office's "Boston Resource" files list information and organizations to which students with specific problems can be referred. Room 13's primary concern now is to involve as many people as possible in its operations, and the staff seems willing to amass a mountain of information to do this...