Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced that she planned to surrender the sovereignty of her 3-mile-long-by-H-mile-wide island to neighboring Guernsey, eight miles farther out in the English Channel. Her 575 subjects were aghast. "The Dame has put us in a small boat and pushed us down the river," groused Philip Perree, a hotelkeeper. "We have no wish to be ruled by the bureaucrats of Guernsey...
...inventor and prophet of "ekistics," meaning the science of human settlements. His planning and design firms employ more than a thousand people in Athens, Washington and 17 other cities. His smallest projects these days are complete university campuses, his largest embrace thousands of square miles, such as the River Plate Basin Development Program, involving new towns and transportation in five South American countries. A better stimulator of ideas than he is a designer, he is also a tireless preacher of the notion that ekistics must include many different disciplines...
...leading man retains prominence without a strong and basic sex appeal. Wayne's has been uniquely conservative. "In a love scene, Clark Gable always forced the issue with a girl," observed Director Howard Hawks (Red River). "Wayne is better when the girl is forcing the issue." The romantic backlash has been operating for two generations on audiences?and on his female costars. Says Actress Vera Miles: "They used to say of the old West, 'Men were men and the women were grateful.' Well, that's how he makes you feel as a woman...
This time Wayne was rescued by Screenwriter Borden Chase, who created a role that Wayne could play, he predicted, "for the next 20 years." The movie was Red River, a western version of Mutiny on the Bounty with the range as the ocean and John Wayne as a pistoled and Stetsoned Captain Bligh. Wayne was at last allowed to play his age (41). Like a man loosening his belt and taking off his tie after a day in the office, the Duke was relaxed, secure and solid. The kid had gone respectable and become a father. Red River...
...takes his readers along as Carol--a summie--and Tim--a Harvard student whom veteran observers recognize as a local movie impressario--wend their way from the Blue Parrot to Tim's Dana St. apartment and a happening on the Charles. Carol sends her circle pin skimming into the river...