Word: scenically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space. On the fourth day, Conrad's 20/15 vision picked out the contrails of planes flying below, the streets of Jacksonville, and the wake of a ship off the coast of Florida. He also took pictures of the landscape, including Cuba. Spy in the sky? "Just scenic shots," said Conrad dryly...
...does not feel sorry for rates as he travels this Faustian road to degeneration. If a young man should have to go to ruin anywhere, Crete is a highly scenic spot to do it. The skillful photography in Zorba elaborates this point, as well as the delightful Greek music. But the acting of Anthony Quinn as Zorba remains the most persuasive part of this movie. His huge face seen often in close-up dominates the theatre. It pleads to you, it sings to you, it grimaces, laughs, it even belches at you until you are so wrapped...
...Desbarats (pronounced Deborah) is a tiny, nondescript village on the shore of the Canadian mainland just across Lake Huron from Michigan, but when Chicago socialites speak of Desbarats they mean a wonderfully scenic eight-mile stretch along the nearby St. Joseph Channel that is strewn with small islands on which unpretentious and simple cottages are half-hidden by evergreens and maples. Moreover, they will tell you in Lake Forest that Desbarats is not just a place but a way of life?a life of complete simplicity, where everyone wears old clothes, sleeps in an iron bed, and uses bottled...
...from the road before a state could get federal highway aid. Beyond that, Johnson asked that states be required to use 3% of their federal road funds "for natural beauty" and that one-third of the aid each state receives for secondary roads should be used to build scenic roads and landscape federal-aid highways...
...people who actually live there. Reflecting on the crisis in La Canada, the Los Angeles Times mused: "Now that the basic routes have been built, there is ever-increasing concern over the direction that future freeways should take. Does not a diminishing return set in when remaining residential and scenic areas are threatened with conversion into concrete freeway lanes? There is still time to plan the freeways of the future, but we are running out of community and aesthetic resources...