Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biafrans are losing. Outnumbered and outgunned, they have been inexorably driven into a landlocked cir cle of rain forest entirely surrounded by federal forces. Their single remaining lifeline to the outside world is a widened stretch of blacktop road that serves as a nighttime landing strip for supply planes?when the planes can run the gauntlet of federal radar-controlled antiaircraft fire. But they are not only losing the war: slowly but surely, eight million Biafrans are starving to death. Gradually, the image of Biafra's human agony has unsettled the conscience of the world. That image...
Through the windows may be seen its spacious, 170-acre formal garden, marshaled with airy grace into a tapestry of boxwood mazes, promenades, canals, fountains, staircases, statuary and grottoes that stretch to the horizon. The ornate Chambre du Roi, which lies to the left of the Grand Salon, illustrates the other French addition to the baroque. Luscious nudes hover overhead in trompe-l'eoil with voluptuousness that the Italians never envisioned-or permitted themselves...
...scene is a seaside village on a remote stretch of Canada's Gaspé Peninsula. Almond uses his color camera as a landscape painter might, pausing now to frame a snow-banked brook and barnyard, now a pile of upturned boat hulls rotting in the winter sun. The country store, the local garage with the inevitable Coca-Cola sign and the railroad tracks piercing through the barren hills like a steel spine flash by in a blur of fast cuts. And always there is the distant, forlorn sound of cowbell and gull cry, wind and heaving...
Into the Laundromat. One prize patient is an electrician who had been declared legally blind as a result of his uremia; after six weeks of intensive dialysis sessions, eight hours at a stretch, he regained his sight and is now back at work. In addition, there are clerks and watchmen, housewives (including a Negro mother of ten), salesmen, accountants, and a society photographer...
...epic tale of the tortoise and the hare the hare slept when obscenely confident of the race only to be over-taken in the stretch by the tortoise who did not give up the tussle till the last line had been crossed. Betty Canter (right) and Eva Stuart have taken off from their summer school studies to help the Republican tortoise in the race for the nomination for the presidency...