Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funniest moment in the movie is a 90-second pantomime--"out of the clear blue sky," as George Bush would say--when a man starts imitating an ape, cradling a beer can, contorting his face, twisting his arms. And the best line in the movie belongs to Cheech; after their high-powered car has left the police in the dust, he turns to his partner and says, "That was too easy--let's let them catch up and start again...
...BODY at the edge of the railroad tracks refused to stir as the desert wind dragged the sand toward the rusty cliffs. The stiff blond hair stuck in jagged clumps to the forehead, and the two blue eyes glared, dead mirrors at the cloudless sky. They found Neal Cassady like a bloated Buick at the side of the road, when a tailpipe or a radiator couldn't fix him anymore, when a girl or a joint couldn't set him smiling, when his ex-friend Jack or his ex-wife Carolyn couldn't get him to talk...
...HELP WONDERING if this Fourth of July I'll feel that tingle down my spine when I hear the 1812 Overture and see Old Glory blazing in red, white, and blue fireworks against the black night sky. I'm not concerned with America's birthday this year. It may be selfish, but I'm thinking about my birthday and the fact it places me in the first group of 20 year-olds that must register for the draft...
...high mesa framed by a fiery desert sky, the dancers appear: with eerie spectral masks, flesh painted in earthy clay and turquoise colors, and swathed in skins. The kachina priests whirl through the dusty streets of the village clacking tortoise rattles, chanting, waving yucca switches. Hopi legends say these "messengers of the Creator" have returned from the San Francisco mountains to begin anew the natural and spiritual cycle of planting and harvest. The desert will be blessed and purified and nourished by rain. An hour's drive north of the high mesa, on desolate scrubland wreathed by a dark...
...storm?" I asked glancing at the cloudless sky...