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Word: mountainous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheduled to take place on the new North House terrace, the party was relocated to a patch of grass at the southern end of the Quad, because the terrace is under construction and off-limits to students. The rest of the lawn is still a giant mud hole and mountain...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Quadlings Celebrate Renovations | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...sped-up clouds, erosion, and decay aren't able to disturb your natural equilibrium, though, the train scenes will. Fricke places his camera on the front of an engine and the film accelerates as the train wends though tunnels and around curves and across mountain passes. There's no question you're on a runaway train...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 9/26/1987 | See Source »

...Because the film is shown on the over-sized OMNIMAX screen--76 feet in diameter and tilted at a 30 degree angle to the horizon--Chronos practically surrounds you. Furthermore, the curvature of the screen warps your perception of the world. Shots of a canyon floor from a high mountain peak are somewhat dizzying and flat deserts appear curved and other-worldly...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 9/26/1987 | See Source »

...directed the program since 1965. "So we went looking in rural America for potential educational leaders." Foundation funds were raised to help defray the $2,500 cost for tuition and board. Over the past ten years nearly 500 rural instructors have studied in the shadow of the distinctly flattened mountain that gives the school its name. This summer 73 came to Bread Loaf from small towns in 32 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great Human Power or Magic | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

...area of destruction from blazes doubled, to 90,000 acres, in less than a day. Four thousand residents of nearby Tuolumne County were forced to flee from the 50-foot walls of flame. In all, some 9,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes in a dozen mountain settlements. More than 20,000 fire fighters were enlisted to help. With no rain in the forecast, they were braced for a long battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disaster: The Big Heat | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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