Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, looked west for spiritual renewal. On the edge of the horizon it found California. Heretofore dismissed for its aimless spirit and shallow purpose, California seemed reborn-or at least exciting. While think tanks scanned the future, aerospace technicians outfitted adventures to the moon. There was a flourishing journalistic "underground" and an archipelago of multiversities that bristled with post-modern architecture...
...George Lucas' Star Wars and soon-to-be released extravaganzas by Francis Coppola and Steven Spielberg have a combined price tag of more than $63 million. Unfortunately, the studios' reliance on blockbuster epics means that fewer experimental movies are being made. The state's once sassy underground press has become superfluous, even insipid. Rock groups like Eagles, who once celebrated the ambience of their adopted state with songs like Peaceful Easy Feeling, now look on California as a latter-day Weimar Republic inhabited by ghoulish sybarites and double-knit hucksters...
...line bristles with care for its surroundings. About half of the line is elevated, protecting Alaska's fragile permafrost from melting under the 180°F. temperature of the oil as it leaves the ground at Prudhoe. More than four miles of the underground sections are specially insulated. Refrigerated brine is pumped through pipes beneath the pipeline to protect the permafrost...
...Green Line is the most distinctly Bostonian of the four iron mole lines. The tracks make crazy turns, the cars' wheels screech terribly, and the cars are too small--more streetcars taken underground than proper subway cars. The passengers are nearly a cross-section of the city's population. With stops at Northeastern University, Boston College, and at least a dozen other schools, the Green Line gets plenty of students, but it also gets much more than the 19-to-27 crowd that sometimes starts to seem like the only possible age group in the Square--it's a major...
During last January's Big Freeze, it seemed that the weather would never warm up fast enough to save the nation from a series of natural-gas emergencies. As fuel shortages forced the closing of many schools and factories, industry officials expressed fears that their underground reservoirs were being depleted so rapidly that they could not be built back to normal during the summer-dooming the U.S. to another shortage next winter...