Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours the Indian-Pacific rushes over a kaleidoscope of landscape. From the steep Blue Mountains of the Great Dividing Range it speeds toward the stark-naked Nullarbor Plain. It flashes by farms with earth so red that the livestock watering holes seem to be filled with blood. It races past nickel, lead and gold mines, flocks of fleecy merinos, smelters, slag heaps, ports and forests. It passes signs exhorting WELFARE NOT WARFARE and OUR HOSPITAL NEEDS YOUR HELP: PLEASE GET SICK. A big painted rock aimed at shooing away pilots seeking to land says PISS OFF. To the north, lights...
...straight out of Bonnie and Clyde, beginning with the use of the song "We're in the Money" sung over the credits. Dillinger tries to be more factual, but turns out to be just as artificial. There is a scene between Dillinger and Billie on a wide stretch of plain with huge clouds rolling by that could have been done with the same footage used in a scene in Bonnie and Clyde where Beatty and Dunaway roll in the grass. One of Dillinger's gang steals a car from two young lovers, too preoccupied to notice, just as the Barrow...
Both rationales were spurious. Much of the bombing was directed against the Plain of Jars in northeast Laos, hundreds of miles away from what the United States has dubbed the "Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Nixon seemed to be in a confident and spirited mood. He told a gathering of White House employees in the Rose Garden: "Let others wallow in Watergate. We're going to do our job." He dismissed all talk of his possible resignation as "just plain poppycock?we're going to stay on this job." While doctors were urging him to slow down, he said that he was going to work "at full tilt all the way. No one in this great office at this time in the world's history can slow down...
...unlisted phone number. The Senator still goes to sleep at his customary 11 p.m. He gets up at 8, has a hearty breakfast and then, as always, walks to his office, which is ten minutes away. Since the hearings began, he has been accompanied around the Hill by two plain-clothes Capitol policemen. At first, the guards embarrassed him, but now he likes their help in getting through the crowds of summer tourists...