Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles, the Big Quake finally happens, sundering the foundations of the giant Hollywood reservoir. In San Francisco, the world's tallest building, a 136-story glass tower, explodes in flames. Vast armies of ants relentlessly eat their way across the great southwest desert. Billions of giant bees swarm malevolently through the steel canyons of New York City, and somewhere underground the survivors of nuclear warfare find their cavernous retreat invaded by hordes of vampire bats...
...present retrospective of 156 prints at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (through June 30) consists almost wholly of landscape photographs. He has appropriated Yosemite and some of the more picturesque and wind-blown surfaces of Northern California and the Southwest as his own, by territorial right of imagery. His pictures include some of the grand cliches of modern American photography, but they are cliches Adams has a prescriptive right to, since he invented them. What Edward Weston did for driftwood and bell peppers Ansel Adams did for mountains, rivers and rocks: recording them with a grave...
Almost like a magnet, the Bastille-like Caxias prison, which stands high on a hill southwest of Lisbon, drew huge throngs of friends and relatives of the political prisoners inside. All had been freed on orders of the junta. TIME's Martha de la Cal witnessed the scene and reported that the crowds, alternately laughing and crying, waited for 73 prisoners to walk-or be carried-out. One man had been in Caxias 21 years, but about 50 were among a group of influential leftists that had been locked up only one week before in the government...
...father, Bo Tucker, realized he had a star in the house when Tanya was eight. Ever since, he has lived off a series of construction jobs round the Southwest wherever he thought Tanya's career might blossom. "It's because of my father's blood and guts that we are where we are today," she says. It is not clear whether "we" is a superstar's first-person plural or an indication that Tanya cannot yet separate her identity from that of her close-knit clan...
...statement says that the addition of another academic building in the area would be confined to the non-residential district. Moulton also cited plans to "start an exterior rehabilitation program on most of the remaining wood frame houses," in a 13-acre site southwest of the Medical School...