Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spiegel and directed by David Lean-that describes the amazing adventures of a peculiar young Englishman who became the guerrilla genius of World War 1, but the customers will find themselves more fascinated by the landscape in which the story was filmed, by the infinite billowing sea of golden sand that covers Arabia Deserta...
...real name, he was bora in Chihuahua during Pancho Villa's revolt. Fleeing the country, his 16-year-old mother carried him 500 miles on her back to Juarez and eventually to El Paso, where his 19-year-old father rejoined them. "My youth was all whirlwinds of sand and threatening rain." he says. The family rode a cattle car to California, where they worked m orchards picking fruit and nuts, eating walnut gruel for breakfast and sleeping under the trees at night. When Tony was nine, his father was hit by a car in Los Angeles and killed...
...Paso, Texas, there was stiff competition between households and neighborhoods for the most striking luminario display (a Mexican custom in which lighted candles are set in sand-weighted paper bags), and in San Antonio rehearsals were on for the traditional Los Pastores miracle play. The Dallas Civic Opera, Chorus, and Symphony Orchestra got ready for their massive performance of the entire Messiah. And everywhere, newspapers were taking advantage of their readers' spirit of the season, whether springing from generosity or guilt, to help their pet charities...
...hour compilation of film material made by cameramen on both sides. It contained shots of awful immediacy. A soldier comes out of the breakers onto Omaha Beach. He is hit by a bullet, sits down slowly with his legs apart, like a child about to build a castle of sand, then falls backwards to die. An other shot showed Ike sitting on the running board of an old car in North Africa, chomping on a sandwich, while Franklin Roosevelt sat on the seat above him, also eating a sandwich. Both men were talking with their mouths full...
...family and possessions. That is how to be a Mormon. You must lead your young and rose-cheeked sweetheart out into the wilderness. One day she sinks to the ground of hunger and thirst, and dies. You dig a grave with your hands and bury her in the sand and put up a cross of two straws that blow away at once. That is how to be a Mormon...