Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civic groups--including Gay Media Action, the Sierra Club, and the American Friends Service Committee--say that Cambridge needs a public service format more than it needs religious broadcasting...
...work of the music department heavies-Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman-stirs the sweetest nostalgic pangs. Only by hearing in isolation the sweeping romanticism of Korngold's Sea Hawk score or the brooding march Steiner used to drive the prospectors toward The Treasure of the Sierra Madre can one realize how much the music contributed both to the original success of these films and their afterlife in the mind. All by themselves, the themes evoke whole movies...
...Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). The story of greed and gold, directed by John Huston (who also wrote the script). Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt play prospectors after treasure (and eventually each other). Ch. 56, 9 p.m. B/W, 2 1/2 hours...
...favorite character in The Maltese Falcon is Captain Jacobi, played by Walter Huston, the old man in Treasure of Sierra Madre and the father of the director. He bursts into the office of Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), gasps "Falcon!" and dies. But the film offers still more: Sidney Greenstreet at his most rotund, Elisha Cook in an oversized overcoat. This third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. This was the film that established John Huston as a director...
...Sierra Gothic. The mountaineer-geologist Clarence King found in the Sierras elaborate analogies to the Gothic −an organic interchange between nature and art. On the other hand, a group of Americans spent five days in 1853 cutting down a 3,000-year-old sequoia, 302 ft. high and 96 ft. in circumference. They polished the stump into a dance floor and hollowed out the fallen trunk to make a bowling alley. The sacred and profane commingled, usually at the expense of the sacred...