Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement proves to be a dangling phrase. In the mechanical effort to push Tony toward a catharsis, Wexler loads the script with a series of stagy and unconvincing plot incidents: a suicide, a gang rumble, a gang bang. By the time Tony takes a soul-searching all-night subway ride to arrive at the story's bogus happy ending, the movie has thrown away its subject to lull us with sentimental bromides about Finding Oneself. We might as well be at Roseland...
Although the 400 medley relay of Gina Stuart, Diana Borden, Sharon Beckman, and Sherry Lubbers were touched out at the finish, their strong showing seemed to spark the team from the effects of their long bus ride...
...jurisdiction. Long before the Federal Government started spending money for such projects, Metro mounted a campaign in the 1950s to clean up Puget Sound and Lake Washington, one of the city's aquatic play grounds. Metro later took over and revived the countywide transportation network, creating a park-ride system to bring in suburbanites, a weekend bus service to ski areas and free fares to the downtown areas...
...printed; sent to the field; and one morning a federal authority is insisting-to take actual cases-that ice cannot be added to drinking water, chickens cannot be processed in rooms with tile floors, fire extinguishers are to be lowered 6 in., and cowboys must work within 5 min. ride of a toilet. The reasons for, and meanings of, the regulations have been lost somewhere between Washington and Pocatello...
...Country is actually three lengthy bulletins about Alaska, glued together like aerial reconnaissance photographs. The first describes a canoe trip that McPhee and four companions took down an unspoiled river in the northwestern reaches of the state, well above the Arctic Circle. Second, McPhee tells of a helicopter ride with a committee looking for a site on which to build a new state capital. The last and longest section covers some wintry months spent in Eagle, a tiny settlement on the Yukon River just west of the Canadian border-"a community deeply compressed in its own isolation," McPhee writes, with...