Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fernando Ed, 35, paced in the balmy California night air and totted up the rewards of being a successful farmer. They included two Porsches, a Datsun, three four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, a redwood home perched on a hilltop in Northern California, a three-bedroom house with an outdoor Jacuzzi near the beach in Los Angeles and a custom-built vacation hideaway in Hawaii. Then he opened up a plastic bag and pinched out a sample of the crop that has made his fortune of nearly $1 million: marijuana...
...glory of its 50-year-old Festival of the Arts, the town mounts a Pageant of the Masters: a display of tableaux vivants reproducing famous artworks with human figures in a 12-ft. by 30-ft. picture frame onstage. The show runs slightly more than two hours at an outdoor theater called the Irvine Bowl...
...could possibly have the survival skills in the outback of a hardened countryman. Hayes Noel, 40, a trader on the floor of the American Stock Exchange in Manhattan, took the hell-yes position. The hell-no side was defended by Gaines, a novelist (Stay Hungry, Dangler) and writer for outdoor magazines, and Bob Gurnsey, 39, a New Hampshireman and sometime ski-shop owner...
...still towers over a freakish mob in the high-tech skyline of Blade Runner. Not that the skyline appears very often in Ridley Scott's latest sci-fi film. The director instead focuses on crowded halls and packed rooms, using flying billboards and continuous drizzle to further enclose the outdoor scenes. The atmosphere is stifling; this future world is a cage...
Pfister, currently an associate of Winthrop House, has also worked with the Freshman Outdoor Program, and as a host for incoming freshmen. An expert in mycology--the study of fungi. Pfister came to the University as an assistant professor in 1974 and received tenure...