Word: spillways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swamps, plains, beaches, dams, railroads, national parks, sawmills, highways. California's Joseph Raffael went to Hawaii and came back with large paintings of water lilies; New York City's best painter of cityscape, John Button, stood at the foot of the Shasta Dam and rendered its spillway with a blue geometrical clarity; Richard Estes produced a view taken near Philadelphia's Independence Square, B&O; the Rockies were full of photorealists in National Park Service Jeeps, and one intrepid soul, Vincent Arcilesi, tethered his easel to the windy lip of the Grand Canyon to record...
...many exhausted cadets, the major recreation is sleeping. There is still some hazing at the Point, such as forcing plebes to know the number of lights in Cullun Hall (340) and the capacity of Luck Reservoir ("Seventy-eight million gallons, sir, when the water is flowing over the spillway"). But the sadistic practices of the past have been abolished-doing deep knee bends over the point of a bayonet or forcing a cadet to run up five floors of the barracks, don a new uniform and get back down in 21/2 minutes...
Louisiana fared better, thanks largely to the effectiveness of levees and spillways. Twenty-five miles north of New Orleans, officials opened the Bonnet Carre spillway for the first time since 1950, siphoning off 250,000 cu. ft. of water per second into nearby Lake Pontchartrain. Beyond that, water-wise Louisianians did what they have always done during flood season: watched the river and trusted the levee walls...