Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign. Thousands of students and workers marched across Paris to the historic Place de la Bastille. Many carried banners with familiar bread-and-butter Slogans: WE WANT HOUSING AND JOBS and PRODUCE FRENCH. Caravans of buses filled with activists poured in from the provinces. With rope and tackle, a mountain climber managed to hoist a red flag to the summit of the square's monumental central column, where it fluttered from the arms of a winged figure. Finally the party's pugnacious leader, Presidential Candidate Georges Marchais, rose to address the cheering throng...
Malle has attempted two things with this movie, and succeeded in at least one. In Pretty Baby, his last movie, he buried a potentially lurid story about teenage prostitution under a mountain of period detail, creating a fuzzily romantic picture-book of old New Orleans. Atlantic City is an equally memorable urban portrait, but this is clearly not a city Malle loves, and he serves it up with objective clarity, sharply focusing his lens on stupid people in ugly places doing evil things...
...John's parents moved to Evergreen, Colo., a Ponderosa town some 25 miles outside Denver. It is that city's choicest mountain suburb: a place of steep, piney cul-de-sacs and well-to-do placidity. On some of his periodic sabbaticals from Texas Tech, John Jr. alighted at the new family home, and while there he often loitered at the local high school, presumably seeking companionship...
...that should last nearly four months, the U.S. is in good shape to weather a fairly long strike. The U.M.W. itself is another matter. Union membership has grown slightly, while nonunion mines have proliferated in the East and Midwest, along with the sprawling strip-mining operations of the Rocky Mountain states. As a result, mines covered by the U.M.W. agreement currently account for only 44% of overall U.S. coal production and the strike will probably reduce this figure further. Said Doug Heape, 23, a Tamaroa, Ill., miner with three years' experience underground: "The longer...
...with the Western Overthrust Belt, which stretches through the Intermountain West from Canada to the Rio Grande, the Eastern strip takes its name from the geological folding and overlapping that occur when mountain ranges are forced upward through sedimentary rock. Some oilmen estimate that such formations in the Western Overthrust states could hold as much as 13 billion bbl. of crude, or more than two-thirds of the amount that might be contained in the Alaskan North Slope...