Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first five minutes, Monty Python's Life of Brian actually meets the unreasonable expectations of fans. The film opens with suitably celestial music as the star of Bethlehem scoots in from the galactic end-zone. Three camels with robed riders poke their way across a sea of sand-dunes, towards a shabby huddle of huts and mangers. It could all be right out of Zeffirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth" down to the last sunbeam...
...Chinese (in June 1972)...had invited me and Democratic Majority Leader Hale Boggs to visit in June with our wives and several members of our staffs. As a youngster I used to dig in the sand on the beaches of Lake Michigan. If I dug deep enough, my mother told me, I'd wind up in China. Now I was actually going to make the trip...
...Nogales, backed by charts and diagrams, he tells the cops how he once tracked a burglar along a concrete road by watching for traces of footprints in "little stringers" of wind-blown sand. Though he shares such knowledge happily, he has found that tracking and desert work require a patience that is disappearing from America. He has camped out for weeks at desert airstrips with his dog Baron. "It's hard to keep the younger guys staked out like that," he laments. "They're gung-ho at the start, but two trips out is about all they...
...high school, signed on as lead singer, the Dolls looked like harbingers of a rock apocalypse. Glitter, outrageous costumes, strong intimations of dressing-room decadence made them notorious. Their mode may have been outré, but their music was just good old rock 'n' roll sand blasted back to life. The Dolls laid down searing, pop-inflected rock, proudly rooted in rhythm and blues, that could pound your ears into flapjacks. Sardonic anthems like Personality Crisis and Vietnamese Baby did not sit easy on a pop establishment that was still recovering from flower power and cuddling...
...what is the largest beach restoration ever attempted. When the corps completes the project in 1981, it will have laid down 10.5 miles of new beach (1.2 miles in neighboring communities), with an average width of 250 ft. In addition, the new shoreline will be rimmed by a protective sand dune-a long, flat ridge some 20 ft. wide and 2½ ft. high that will act as a storm barrier-and a park with hundreds of palm trees and paths for strollers and cyclists...