Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live with it." Braswell and his wife Betty have lived here for 17 years and raised six kids, packing them off to school in nearby towns. In a community where no one is in charge, Braswell takes it upon himself to maintain the big Q sign on Q mountain. "A while ago, I filled my pickup with 4-H kids, drove up there and poured whitewash over the Q. Got to go up there again." Like everything else in town, his business is geared toward an older clientele. "Ninety-five percent of the people who eat here have dentures...
Mule deer, mountain goats, bald eagles and three-toed woodpeckers are naturally at home among the stately firs, hemlocks, cedars and redwoods in the "old growth" forests of the Pacific Northwest. So are goshawks, flying squirrels and red tree voles. But amid this Noah's ark of creatures, none is so influential as a dark-eyed bird with a doglike bark and a yen for mice -- the northern spotted...
...Yulin as the parents and Bethel Leslie as the dying aunt -- all established stars who delicately avoid star turns -- and the exceptional Clayton Barclay Jones and Angela Goethals as the children. Heidi Landesman's brilliantly simple sets fill a postage-stamp stage with bits of cloth to create a mountain, a river, a campsite and a twinkling night sky, capturing not physical essence but distilled recollection. The entire event is ethereal yet spellbinding...
...make-over of the Soviet Union. For Blackman, who arrived in 1987 after 17 years in Washington, delving into Gorbachev's odd combination of internal imbroglios and dynamic foreign policy has proved the opportunity of a lifetime. Says Blackman: "For a reporter today, Moscow is the big rock-candy mountain. There's a story on every street corner." Last month she and Kohan scoured the country to report TIME's special issue on the "new" Soviet Union. Shevardnadze called it a "fitting title." The 3,000 copies of the magazine available in Moscow and Leningrad sold out in a couple...
Deir al-Bahri. A 3,400-year-old tomb-and-temple complex near Luxor, it is threatened by landslides from a nearby mountain. The most likely remedy is a + chain-link fence to protect the monument from falling rocks. Meanwhile, the Polish Center of Archaeology in Cairo has been doing restoration work on parts of the temple. One project: using gypsum to patch up and refinish a statue of the god Osiris...