Word: scenic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward the mediocre. Rather than devising a consistent visual approach to the material (and surely there was one to be found), he tries a lot of things-some of which work, many of which do not. Much too often he falls back on photographer Laszlo Kovacs' repertoire of American scenic vistas to punctuate scenes-a device that seems intended, for whatever reasons, to invite comparisons with Easy Rider. Occasionally, Rafelson cuts to moments back and forth in time; this invites comparisons to another, thematically similar American film, Richard Lester's Petulia -comparisons which Five Easy Pieces courts...
...ROAD from Middlebury College up to the Breadloaf Mountain campus (where in late summer a gang of artist types and their students celebrate the annual writers' conference started about 50 years ago by Robert Frost), you pass first through the scenic village of Ripton, Vermont, a town which will probably satisfy your expectations of what Robert Frost's home town should look like, You find little more than a post office, a phone booth and a combination gas station and general store dealing in two-for-a-penny-candy, dusty bottles of aspirin, applejack, Vermont cheese (kept under the moldy...
When a country of considerable scenic beauty is plagued by a chronic shortage of foreign exchange funds, the standard solution is to build a few luxury hotels, print some brochures advertising the virgin beaches and rugged mountains, and brace for the flood of tourists. Leave it to Albania to invent a new wrinkle that is absolutely guaranteed to keep the tourists away in droves...
...flush toilet," said James R. Hamilton of the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, Con Ed's chief opponent...
This year the cars have been very evenly matched, and Sunday's race should be as close as the previous two. Bryar is a scenic 1.3 mile course located between Concord and Loudon, New Hampshire. The track is on the right side of the road that runs between the two towns. There are a number of good vantage points, and most of the course can be seen from the bleachers opposite the start-finish line. Qualifications start at about 9 a.m. Sunday morning, and the race for small European cars starts at noon. At 2:30 p.m. the main event...