Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackie Torrence, originally out of Granite Quarry, N.C., gives Appalachian Mountain tales her own Earth Mother Afro twist. Eyes rolling, hands fluttering, laughter spilling up and over, she can jolly an audience as nobody else. But watch out for the little sting afterward! Uncle Remus is not safe in her company. When she turns into a frog, warning of the approach of Br'er Rabbit, lily pads a mile away tremble at Torrence's harrumph...
...time of his appointment, Watt was head of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a Denver-based "public interest" law firm that took a prodevelopment stance in various environmental disputes. Conservationists thought then that he was a poor choice to head Interior, and still do. The Environmental Defense Fund, a legal action group, announced last week that it will sue Watt for delaying the addition of 44 species, most of them Hawaiian snails, to the endangered species list. The San Francisco-based Sierra Club, one of Watt's most vocal opponents, is continuing to circulate impeachment petitions. And Friends...
Convincing the nation that an ultraexpensive rearmament program is necessary and deciding on its approximate size were the opening, and easiest, steps in getting the buildup going. Now comes the far more difficult job of making hard choices about exactly what that mountain of money should be used to buy?and what ought to be bought first...
...Dalmatians, Alex Alligator in Fantasia. That film, of course, was the great test of the studio's range and included such marvelous, unprecedented imagery as Wolfgang Reitherman's massed battling dinosaurs and the dark demonism of Vladimir Tytla's work on the Night on Bald Mountain sequence...
...Fourth of July weekend to attend a wedding. Now, I have to admit, I am what people out West like to call an Eastern Bastard: I don't know how to ride a horse, I've never shot a ground squirrel, and I think Mount Washington is a big mountain. I've lived most of my life right around Boston. I was born in Madison, Wisconsin, but Madison is really nothing more than an island of East in the vast sea of the Midwest. And the last time I saw California I was two years old. I was really prepared...