Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that made Bartlett's reputation, Rhapsody, 1975-76. It consists of 988 images, each done in model- airplane paint on an identical square of white-enameled steel. There are --to oversimplify this strangely permutational work, which fills a whole gallery in the present exhibition--four figurative motifs (house, tree, mountain, sea), three abstract ones (square, circle, triangle), three kinds of drawing (freehand, ruled, dots) and a wide but fixed number of standard colors, used straight from the can, never mixed on a palette...
...most troubling effect of the consolidations has been the creation of a huge and worrisome mountain of debt. In the past two years nearly $200 billion in stock has vanished from corporate treasuries and been replaced with IOUs that must be paid. By the end of the third quarter, American firms had built up $1.4 trillion in debt. In the same period corporate debt has increased more than 10% annually. These big borrowings, moreover, are part of a trend that has seen almost every sector of the U.S. economy become a rapidly growing debtor. From the $200 billion federal budget...
...Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson one night last month, several large telescopes tracked the approaching comet, projecting images that flickered across television monitors. But like countless amateur stargazers around the world, the astronomers wanted to see the cosmic celebrity with their own eyes. Huddled in the chill mountain air outside an observatory dome, necks craned, binoculars raised, they and a group of visitors searched a patch...
...Wild California: Vanishing Lands, Vanishing Wildlife by A. Starker Leopold and Raymond F. Dasmann (University of California; 144 pages; $29.95). A different breed of actors, seldom seen on Rodeo Drive, populates this sumptuous bargain of a book. San Joaquin kit foxes, yellow- bellied marmots, California bighorn sheep and mountain lions patrol the high mountains and hidden valleys; bald eagles and hawks, herons and condors find their lonesome rookeries. Some of Tupper Ansel Blake's photographs--a grove of bishop pines at Point Reyes, the promontories of Santa Cruz Island fading into the mist--evoke Japanese prints. All eloquently plead...
...inmate-reception centers from roughly 7,800 to 7,019 by New Year's Eve. Prisoners had been sleeping in gyms and administrative centers, and many, like Simerly, had been lodged in county jails to alleviate overcrowding. Construction of maximum-security facilities has not kept up with need. Brushy Mountain Prison in mountainous east Tennessee, which gained unwanted renown when Martin Luther King's killer James Earl Ray escaped in 1977, was last renovated 40 years ago. "Cottages" for youthful offenders, built at the village of Only during the 1970s, were converted to house vicious criminals, but soon became ungovernable...