Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade's most original film scores. But the spike in his lyrics can be easy to miss: it is hidden neatly between a rich melody and a smooth delivery that owes as much to cabaret as to the Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park. Lately, too, his songs have grown rather more introspective and relaxed, concentrating on private dilemmas and domestic relations. A just released album called Lucky Day opens with a modified disco tune that flirts with frivolity. But the record closes out on a sardonic anthem in the old style, England My England. The song discusses...
They seem adrift on a lazy summer outing, but Activists Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem are actually firing some shots across someone else's bow. The two rented a rowboat in New York City's Central Park in order to dramatize, according to Mrs. Abzug, the fact "that while President Carter was showboating on the Mississippi, Americans were left up the creek in the fight against rising prices." To itemize that metaphor, the two sailors paid only $3 for their trip, while the presidential excursion cost several thousand. The pair also launched a new political organization called Women...
Today, at 77, Ansel Adams is the most popular "fine" photographer in America. His images of landscape, and particularly of Yosemite National Park in California, have become almost indistinguishable from their subjects: to many people, Yosemite is the apparition on Adams' viewfinder. "Won't it be wonderful when a million people can see what we are seeing today!" exclaimed John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club, as he gazed on Yosemite seven decades ago. Last year 2.7 million tourists went to Yosemite. One may fairly assume that most of their innumerable frames of 35-mm and Polaroid film were...
Adams' work?and his 60-year association with the Sierra Club, including 37 years as a member of its board of directors?has exerted a steady pressure on U.S. conservation and parks policy. Adams' limited-edition book Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail (1938) helped persuade Franklin D. Roosevelt to shepherd a bill through Congress that turned the Kings Canyon area of east-central California into a national park...
Cimino decided to shoot much of the film in a majestic section of Montana's Glacier National Park. The other major location is the picturesque mining town of Wallace, Idaho. Cimino built an entire frontier street there. He also built a period roller rink called Heaven's Gate near the production headquarters in Kalispell, Mont...