Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this week's story propelled him on a two-week, 2,500-mile sweep across seven states from the Canadian border to New Mexico. "I had been warned that the region would be unrecognizable to me," he says. "Things like the brown pollution cloud over Denver's sky line, the mind-boggling traffic in Jackson Woodbury with oil Hole, the rising crime rates. But I was just as surprised by the things that had not changed: the eerie desolation of a high-country road in Wyoming, the majesty of the Teton mountains, and especially the open warmth...
...revised plans call for a complex of four separate buildings built around a central courtyard that is "open to the sky and visible from both Brattle Square and the J.F.K. Park." There will be two hotel buildings connected by a transparent aboveground tunnel, and greatly expanded office building and condominiums, with shops around the courtyard and underneath the hotel and offices...
...explosion toward the front end of the casino," he said. "Then I saw this big mass of flame, about 100 feet in diameter." Pandemonium surged through the casino, which stayed open 24 hours a day, as the flames roared up through the catwalk called the "eye in the sky," used by the management to monitor gambling. The early-morning patrons fled...
They met on a cold, damp Venetian morning, the wild ducks flying overhead. The hunter was 49, married, famous. The girl was 18, a dark Leonardesque virgin. "I love you more than the moon and the sky," he would later write her. "Daughter, how complicated can life be?" Very, she would answer: "I tried to remain on the razor's edge, because had I asked, you would have thrown yourself from a wall for me." Ernest Hemingway did not go quite that far to prove his love for young Adriana Ivancich, but he did write her some...
...Sky's the Limit, Dyer...