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Tommy and the Tigers’ rock music and risqué message hit a precollegiate audience Wednesday night, when the band serenaded a small crowd of high-school-aged Harvard Secondary School Program students in Loker Commons...
...Linklater says he would be willing to do an action movie. Or a sequel to School of Rock, or a third installment of Before Sunrise, perhaps the lowest-grossing movie ever to spur a sequel. "We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people," he says, taking swings in his office with his aluminum bat. He thinks it's about a fear of failure. In the test audiences for the film, the kids were glad the Bears don't win the championship game, whereas parents weren...
...some, the O'Shaughnessy Dam is a monument to the skills of the Irish-American engineer who built it. Elegant is the word that Susan Leal, general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, uses to describe the curved wedge of rock and concrete that soars 300 ft. above the floor of the Hetch Hetchy Valley. But to others, the dam, constructed nearly a century ago inside the western boundary of Yosemite National Park, is a mocking tombstone to a landscape whose haunting beauty has lain for too long beneath 100 billion gallons of water...
...luxury tent has a shaded veranda?the ideal place to enjoy a drink and watch the sun set over the Simpson Desert. The bathroom is a corrugated-iron extension at the rear of the tent, and features a stylish, freestanding bathtub open to the sky. Excursions include visits to rock art and fossil sites and to Chambers Pillar, a sandstone monolith 40 km away. There are also hunting tours, where tribal elders instruct you in the gathering of "bush tucker"?local foods like grubs and wild plants. Meanwhile, at Titjikala's art center, guests can meet local artists as they...
COLLAPSED. APOSTLE NO. 4, a 45-m-tall rock formation that, along with eight adjacent outcrops, was part of the 12 Apostles, one of Australia's most famous natural landmarks; after thousands of years of erosion; off the southern coast of Victoria. In reality, there were never more than nine limestone stacks; they were given their current title in 1922 in hopes of drawing more tourists than they had attracted under their previous name, the Sow and Piglets. According to one witness, the rock "shuddered, then fractured and collapsed straight down on itself" before falling into the Indian Ocean...