Word: scenic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scenery flats and starched aprons cannot mug for the audience or recite witty lines. Scenic and vocal delights pale when the direction is drab and comic potential ignored. Although the company's voices are strong and clear, they may as well be disembodied. The staging is sometimes pedestrian, and there is a peculiar reluctance to ham up the show...
...leisurely backyard picnic for this hypothetical family-or for the millions of real ones who will take to the nation's highways this summer. They want food fast, and fast food they get. The old poetry of the open road -scenic vistas, empty spaces, serendipity-has been drowned out by a new beat...
...Crab Soup. There was something for everyone and every age, from jazz sets to film screenings. To the delight of children, giant puppets strolled the streets. Free sculpture and art shows blossomed at scenic and historic sites around the city. Charleston's restaurants were ready with that minor art form known as low-country cooking: she-crab soup, sauteed shrimp, fried oysters, Limehouse sausage...
Geographer Henry Gannett, who mapped much of the American West, wrote those words at the turn of the century. But even today, Alaska's scenic grandeur almost defies description. Larger than Texas, Montana and California combined, the 49th state possesses more coastline than the rest of the nation. It boasts North America's tallest mountain, the nation's third longest river and, in addition to Alaskan brown bears, the world's largest land carnivores, a glacier the size of Rhode Island. Purchased from Russia in 1867 for a paltry $7.2 million, Alaska also contains some...
...this problem by awarding the natives $962 million in cash and some 17.6 million hectares (44 million acres) of their own. The act further directed the Interior Department to designate up to 32 million hectares (80 million acres) as potential national parks and monuments, wildlife refuges and wild and scenic rivers...