Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally tired of bars, and the serenity of camping bores you., then call Pa Legal at Wanderlust Adventures (303-484-1219) to sign up for a whitewater raft trip. Following Route 40 west in Northern Colorado, turn onto Route 318 at Maybell. A spectacular drive down the vermillion bluff will lead you to The Gates of Ledore, huge rocks, and your dock on the Green River. You'll spend three days with eagles and sheep and enough sleepers and rapids to make you happy to get back to the safety of Cambridge. Not only is Legal an expert raftsman...
...young Leipzig painter was just a month shy of 25. He was not far from such ambitious images of modern catastrophe as The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912. This enormous, early painting, 8 ft. 8 1/2 in. by 10 ft. 10 in., is a "journalistic" homage to Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, but the scores of figures dumbly raging for survival in the cold green water have nothing classical about them. Already one sees some of the main traits of mature Beckmann breaking through: especially the sense of packed humanity in tight spaces that somehow betoken worse things beyond...
...conviction, laminated in the soul, that the problems of the world were intractable, that the future lying ahead was an ever darkening road. Worldwide famines and dire overpopulation loomed, people murdering for bowls of rice. Global pollution. The death of the rivers and oceans. The earth itself became the raft of the Medusa...
...know whether I saw the blood first or the shark." The monstrous fish swam toward Rehm, spat out Conger and then vanished. Recalls Rehm: "Omar said, 'Help me.' " It was too late: by the time Rehm had floated him to shore on a raft, Conger was dead...
...sentimental plea for humanistic faculty-student relationships, sometimes a romantic comedy and sometimes The Blackboard Jungle revisited. Mostly, however, it is a mess. Screenwriter W.R. McKinney wrenches his plot endlessly, attempting to make plausible the weird shifts in tone. The leads (Nick Nolte and JoBeth Williams) and a raft of good supporting players are simply set adrift, looking for a logical line to which their bedraggled characters might cling. There are no survivors...