Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed a mad gamble: a $12 million epic about an eccentric English adventurer on the fringe of World War I, set in the sere deserts of the Middle East. It was hell to shoot: 18 months in the singeing sun of Jordan, Morocco and Spain. It had an obscure actor in the title role and no speaking parts for women. When it opened in New York City during the 1962 newspaper strike, one of the film's few reviewers, Andrew Sarris, called it "dull, overlong and coldly impersonal . . . hatefully calculating and condescending...
...biggest obstacle could be the psychological barrier to living away from the sun and sky. Critics see the potential for mass claustrophobia. For that reason, planners foresee few underground housing projects, at least initially. The idea is to move offices and stores beneath the surface to free up the land above for residential building. People would become vertical commuters, going down a huge elevator shaft to work...
Rumor has it that students at the University of Miami are lining up outside travel agencies to get their Fun-in-the-Sun packages--four days of 70 degree weather in New England, guaranteed spots on the steps of Memorial Church for tanning, free sailing and surfing on the Charles...
Maybe these "happening dudes" thought Harvard was the place to go for sun, surf and sand. But for me, if I had wanted to sunbathe in February, I would have gone to UCLA...
...moved to Boston, while the other stayed in the sun in California. One would excel in squash, the other one in basketball and baseball...