Word: steppeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spain's other touted economy is that if the director doesn't like the weather, all he has to do is drive a little. Thus David Lean of Zhivago, who had traveled 30,000 miles to find a snowy steppeland for his winter scenes, was assured he need go no further than Soria in the Spanish Pyrenees. "Just like Russia," promised the mayor, counting up the take for the local economy. M-G-M was convinced, built a whole Russian village, a rail line and a river-diverting dam. Only the snows never came, and when Lean went...
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