Word: venturas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...zoomed down the Ventura Freeway and beat Air Force One by an hour. I gathered my family by the fireside...
...their new jobs valuable not only as a source of income but as a way to develop a skill that could lead to future employment on the outside. Keith Rogers, 21, was convicted of robbery in 1982 and the following year began serving a three-year sentence at the Ventura School in Camarillo, Calif., a correctional institution for youthful offenders. In February he was one of 24 inmates who began taking phone reservations for TWA through a switchboard hooked up to three trailers at Ventura. Says Rogers: "This opportunity makes my future a little bit brighter. It gives...
Judy Collins, a mother who lives in Ventura County, Calif., is fighting mad. "They are teaching kids the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish," she says, of bilingual classes at San Cayetano Elementary School, which her daughter attends. "It's a United States flag," she adds indignantly. "They need to learn that in English...
...Great Painters (Putnam; $15.95), Italian Artist Piero Ventura ranges through history from the pottery of ancient Greece to the murals of Picasso. Along the way he stops to consider almost every major artist; he shows how Dürer worked in woodcuts, the techniques of Holbein (seen painting the clothes of a straw model because the King is too busy to pose), the hidden Christian imagery of Goya, the palette of the impressionists, the contained violence of the fauves and cubists. Ventura augments photographs of the paintings with his own sketches of the artists at work, explains such terms...
...ever-changing sea, but not from the ever-changing state. In California, the state coastal commission ruled in 1977 that when owners build or rebuild sea walls to protect their property from erosion, all land seaward of the embankments is automatically opened to public access. In 1979 a Ventura County community called Whalers' Village built a revetment and fought the public-access rule. A local court found the requirement unconstitutional in 1983 because it was "the taking of private property without paying just compensation." The ruling is being appealed. "The government is giving these people a Hobson...