Word: scenically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boasted he could cut two hours off that time. Newspapers scrambling for a "bright feature" put their most athletic reporters on the road, though few finished 50 miles. One-the San Francisco Chronicle's Bob Robertson-managed 50 miles around the city's famed Scenic Drive, which the Chronicle thought should be renamed "Robertson's Track...
...contemporary opera based (tenuously) on the play by Arthur Miller, keeps reminding you how good it is all evening long, and necessarily so: without reminders, one would forget very quickly. The music, by Robert Ward, is a nightmarish splice of bad Richard Strauss and the sound track from the scenic sections of a True Life Adventure Film. The product of too much emotion music form Grade B movies, Ward's chords smother in their instumescence. When Ward does shear off the blathering orchestral fat, the musical thought that remains strikes out as absolutely insipid. Three hours of such stuff...
...beautiful new football stadium seating 46,000; our coliseum which will seat 10,000; I wish you could see the 35,000 acres of water known as the Great Pearl River reservoir, which will be completed within the next year and see the beautiful, scenic, historic Gulf Coast where we have the longest man-made beach in the world--A 23 mile sand beach...
...very desirable possibility" for diversification, says the I.C.'s highly rated President Wayne A. Johnston, 65, would be the construction of offices or apartments on the scenic lakefront lands that the I.C. owns near Chicago's Loop. "We might also acquire some manufacturing firm that would produce a lot of traffic for the railroad," says Johnston. "Almost any promising venture will be considered, whether it be a jewelry store or a hamburger stand." Illinois Central Industries would be forbidden to acquire directly competing transportation companies, but beyond that it would be a fairly free agent...
...those interested in sets, there is a selection of prints of Baroque scenic illusions, through the air. And you can see a 1493 edition of Terence's comedies, which is the first book to contain illustrations of actual theatrical performances...