Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOUNTAIN SPIRITS: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey from King James' Ulster Plantation to America 's Appalachians and the Moonshine Life by JOSEPH EARL DABNEY 242 pages. Scribners...
This is the modern ritual of power. It is a final exhilaration for men in these positions, a distillate of the presidential spectacle that sweeps across oceans and mountain ranges with such ease...
Against a dark background, a pinkish ovarian follicle swells until an egg bursts forth and sails along the convoluted lining of the fallopian tube like a miniature moon over a mountain range. Sperm, their tails thrashing, cluster together like salmon awaiting a signal to leap a waterfall. Cells, pulsing with life, divide and reproduce. Finally, in a scene reminiscent of the fadeout of 2001, a fetus, its already human form visible through a transparent amniotic sac, fills the screen. These spectacular images (see following pages) are not the products of a Hollywood special effects department. They are frames from...
...incredibly timeconsuming. We first advertised openly in all the obvious places, and then we sent out letters to professional directories. We have 275 alumni who sent in recommendations, and then we had a head start with the 400 candidates considered for my job. We came out with a mountain of resumes. We're looking for someone with academic and administrative experience, and while we didn't exclude men from consideration--we had five male candidates--everybody really had in mind a woman...
...frontrunning Democratic gubernatorial candidate in New York filed a petition Monday with the Federal Power Commission urging it to immediately halt construction of a controversial electric generating plant at Storm King mountain...