Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While challenging the tactics of the corps, the environmentalists oppose the Tenn-Tom on more basic grounds. They believe that the largely unpolluted Tombigbee will be turned into a series of small stagnant pools. Some 45,000 acres, rich with wildlife, fossils and Indian relics, will be inundated. Randall Grace, former executive director of the Tombigbee River Conservation Council, asserts that the project will "transform northeastern Mississippi into a huge garbage dump. The promoters say that it will turn the region into the Ruhr Valley of the South, without realizing how polluted the Ruhr...
...malaise and alienation, which works devastatingly well on the college audience. The big problem is the caricatures--of course we're going to be alienated when the supporting characters are psychos, ghouls, vacuous chatterboxes, intellectual snobs and snots, or vegetables with fixed, idiot smiles. Jack Nicholson plays--superlatively--a rich, formerly preppie pianist who has abandoned the family mansion--a mausoleum on an island off Washington--and gone to work for an oil company in the wilds of California, as a hardhat. Then he returns home for a visit. Raphelson gives the mansion and grounds a wonderfully icy, creepy feeling...
American Graffiti. At Science Center B, Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10. You'll Never Get Rich. At Quincy House, Thursday...
...Frank Rich...
...when the chips are down, said Ford, indirectly referring to Carter. Ford also said that the Shah, who is considered more friendly to the U.S. that, any of his potential replacements, said the nations should support his regime to keep a steady flow of petroleum imports from the oil-rich Middle East state...