Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From Architect John Burgee's pleasant new wooden Liberty Island pier, the trip over to Ellis Island takes just five minutes. The anxious immigrant's view toward Liberty must have been a bit ominous: the perspective from Ellis is of the statue's back, her cold shoulder. Of the 17 million who disembarked there, some 300,000 were deported, deemed medically or politically unfit to become Americans. Given the mass of people who passed through, though, Ellis Island's history is humane: 80% who arrived were in and out within a few hours. Yet today, roaming the decrepit, shadowy, once...
...firsthand experience. As a bonus baby for the New York Knicks in 1967, his eyes widened as his lawyer described all the ways he could shelter his six-figure income. "I wasn't just a player," he recalls. "I was a depreciable asset." On one road trip, when his teammates went to the movies to unwind, Bradley curled up with heavy tomes by Economist Milton Friedman and Tax Specialist Stanley Surrey and first read that tax rates could be greatly lowered if loopholes were closed...
Come to Nicaragua. It's a beautiful, hilly nation with which you're bound to fall in love. The country is admittedly a little too hot but the two-day trip down through Mexico is well worth it, because Nicaragua is about to be hit with a gigantic economic shot...
...Trip to Bountiful...
Visu S-193, "Workshop: Film and Anthropology," offers a veritable trip around the world and through the human psyche. For a workshop tuition of $785, Emile de Brigard, director of film research, Robert G. Gardner, director of the Peabody Museum film study center and Jean Rouch, visiting audio-visual professor from the University of Paris will teach human behavior as seen through non-fiction films...