Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plants, and even these are portraits. She bears down on a single bud or stalk and reveals the uniqueness of a living thing in the same way she concentrates on a human face and reveals its essentials. For her, Ansel Adams glares down from the top of a mountain, tripod slung over his shoulder, finger jabbing at the air in the style of a barnstorming evangelist. Judy Dater--another photographer--glances down with daydreaming eyes and a half smile as she stretches out her long black hair with her fingers. Her portraits of Martha Graham are studies in extension...
...quit the local high school because Truckie is coming back to it ("you'll be the only student with wrinkles"), and the death of his little sister's favorite pet, Jonathan Livingston Duck. Truckie's method of handling all this would make Walton's mountain collapse. He brawls lustily with his father, and tricks his brother (Mark Hamill) into a return to scholarship. Instead of giving the distraught little girl a homely homily on mortality, he breaks her grief with a tall story. "Poor Ducky," she says, pulling herself together in the quick way of real...
...time the book arrives at 1972-with doleful references to Watergate and the ecological crisis-Michener has some 70-odd more chief human characters, along with hundreds of bit players. They include all the tribes of the West, Homerically described: the French trappers who first penetrated the wilderness, mountain men, cattlemen, sheepherders, cutthroats, railroad folk, beet tycoons, actors, industrialists, politicians and, finally, ecologists...
...work days, he also received satisfaction from his many recreation activities. At the age of 71, Duncan constructed a 36-foot schooner for his personal use. His "Cruising Guide to the New England Coast" has become a bible for the New England seafarer. As a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Duncan was an avid climber, listing Mt. Katahdin in Maine and Ben Nevis, the highest peak in Britain, among those he conquered when he had passed...
Duncan was also an avid yachtsman and mountain climber...