Word: pinone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desiccated climate of New Mexico's San Juan Basin, a land of red sandstone mesas peppered with pinon trees, water is so precious that Navajo tradition regards it as a living entity. Survival here has long depended on the health of underground pools and streams that feed wells and the occasional surface spring. That's why Billy Martin is worried. The water supply to his tiny town of Crownpoint (pop. 2,500) is threatened, he says, by money-grubbers who don't understand water's importance to Native American culture. It sounds like a familiar story... until you realize that...
...stylist Jean-Pierre Jeunet of Delicatessen fame. Because of whole ship mama Sigourney Weaver. Because of genetics and the human attachment to willful mediocrity. Because we've never seen an alien underwater (where you also can't scream). Because bounty hunters watch the TV shopping network. Because of Dominique Pinon's forehead. Because aliens bleed acid, and androids bleed semen. Because alien-human hybrids have pixie noses. And, always, because of the deeper issues...
...appreciably better than the movie after which no sequels need have been made, and necessarily worse. By itself, it's an average to good action movie starring more than the usual number of people who maybe saw the word "acting" in a book once (Sigourney Weaver's rather good, Pinon's on leave from the stage). But as always, it's the deeper issues, the pressing questions, the intriguing half-truths tussling with the universal in the dust--it's these things that lead us back. Accordingly, please find attached a primer of issues to discuss should the ride home...
...bumpy half-hour drive down a ruined red-clay road that wends into the azure sky of northwestern New Mexico like a curl of Christmas ribbon reaching toward heaven. The main sanctuary, fashioned from brown adobe and perched on a small hill, is warmed by burning pinon and scented by freshly baked bread. In the late afternoon the surrounding canyon glows with a purple twilight. At night the waters of the Chama River gossip with the birds, and the stars weave a gossamer blanket overhead. No matter what your faith, it is an easy place in which to be spiritual...
...forced to take an upper-level class that I hadn't even shopped," said Adriana Pinon '98, who found out she didn't make the cut for B-29 Monday night. "I wish they would tell us earlier. Harvard has such a wealth of great classes, and they end up being chosen haphazardly...