Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...packs of beer, still others zinging along in snowmobiles. Temperatures hover around the freezing mark, a moderate offshore wind is blowing out of the southeast. North toward Canada, the ice stretches as far as the eye can see, an unbroken white expanse that merges with the gray horizon of snow-laden clouds...
From the air Medford at first looks fairly familiar, a blacktop and stucco fantasia of gas stations and fast-fooderies sprawling out along a meandering, not-too-clean creek. But the mountains that rim the valley are tipped with snow and trimmed with dark firs that wipe the skyline like distant eyelashes. "Gee, Dad," the boy says, nose pressed to the window, "could we really move out here...
...leading up to the public library is lined with rosebushes. Ask the young waitresses at the Copper Kettle if they can put up a pair of box lunches for a fishing trip, and the reply is a cheerful, "Sure can!" Cars seem miraculously well preserved. There is almost no snow in the valleys of southern Oregon. No snow, no rock salt to eat away fenders and underbodies...
After his first night at home, above his family's tavern in Olyphant (pop. 5,138), Michael Metrinko looked out the window at the gently falling snow. "I knew at that moment that at last it was over," he says. "There I was, standing in the bedroom of my boyhood. Nobody was threatening me. No one was calling for my death. I was home...
...suspects is the only amplifier in the Brazilian backlands. Diegues subtly uses Wilker's ridiculously inept shamming to represent more seriously the modern demand to sell out and adapt. One of the blackest jokes in the movie occurs when Lord Gypsy annoints his draught-plagued audience with bogus snow to the crooning of "White Christmas;" Gypsy proclaims "I can make it snow in Brazil like it does in all civilized countries." His ironic tone suggested he knows what it takes to get ahead in that world...