Word: outback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Down swooped the gleaming Boeing 707 and out popped a coatless Prince Charles, a cool Princess of Wales and a romper-suited Prince William, blinking in the early-morning sunshine. The visitors had landed in Alice Springs, smack in the heart of the desolate Australian outback. From there, nine-month-old William was flown off to Woomargama, a comfy 4,000-acre ranch, where he will rest while his parents glide through their 25,000-mile, six-week tour of Australia and New Zealand, returning nine times to check up on their son and recuperate. Their first stop: Room...
Black stump, beyond the: any excessively remote part of the outback...
...Dreaming" presents one of Kate Bush's most disturbing worlds. Singing in the harsh Aussie accent of an outback miner, she expresses the victorious hubris of a developer crushing a primitive society like a kangaroo under the wheels...
...last week to keep one of their spy satellites from plunging prematurely and dangerously back to earth. The high drama was reminiscent of NASA's unsuccessful attempt to control the fall of Skylab four years ago, when fragments of the unmanned U.S. space station harmlessly hit the Australian outback. But the problem with the Soviet satellite had a particularly frightening element. Aboard the faltering Red star was some lethal cargo: a miniature nuclear power plant that could spray deadly radioactive material over a wide swath of the earth...
...doldrums of world cinema in the '70s, one national film industry suddenly emerged with the vibrant squalls of a healthy infant: Australia had arrived. From an outback of inactivity a decade before, a flock of young film makers proved they could appeal to a worldwide audience while remaining true to their country's ornery uniqueness. But with success came a more daunting challenge: to remain uncolonized by the New Hollywood. The best directors have been wooed to the U.S. to make the same kinds of films but bigger, and without all those people who talk funny and drive...