Word: ozarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down-playing his astronaut background through much of the campaign, he used "the right stuff' as a tag line in his Southern television ads and played up his military past. In Pine Bluff, Ark., he piloted an antique Stearman training biplane ("That was fun!" he said) and at Ozark, Ala., drove an M-60 tank in figure eights ("That...
...Mart is based in the rolling Ozark hill country of Bentonville, Ark. (pop. 8,756). The sleepy mountain town was heretofore known chiefly as the birthplace of Louise McPhetridge Thaden, winner in 1929 of the first cross-country Powder Puff Air Derby for women aviators. Now it is famous as the home of Walton, an individualist who flies his own Piper Aztec, hunts quail, and is worth $500 million to $700 million...
...once familiar and novel, the chapel was built for wayfarers rather than a resident congregation. No larger than a tall barn, it stands at the bend of a wooded trail, high in the Ozark Mountains. An almost transparent structure of mostly timber and glass, it seems to be one with the surrounding woods and rocks. The chapel's architect, E. Fay Jones of Fayetteville, Ark., who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, describes it as a kind of reversal of gothic cathedral architecture. The trusses inside the structure form a repetitive, rhythmic lattice pattern as evocative as a Bach fugue...
...airlines are in trouble. Piedmont, which flies mainly in the mid-Atlantic states, doubled its earnings to $32 million in 1981. The income of Denver-based Frontier Airlines was up 38% last year, to $31.9 million. Ozark earned $17 million in 1981, its first profit in three years...
...most commonplace idea: that opposites attract. The two characters that comprise his cast start at the antipodes of American society. Matt Friedman is a Lithuanian Jewish accountant, gray suit, beard and wire glasses, Mittel-European accent and Henny Youngman-style jokes. Sally Talley springs from a factory-owning Ozark tamily, works as a nurse in an army hospital (it's 1944) and has a jaw locked as tight as a cashbox. The two are not a very probable couple...