Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their shorts, and entered an Indian sweat lodge-a wooden framework covered by an orange carpet and a purple blanket-to receive clarity of mind and body. The warriors, perhaps 150 of them, seemed perfectly willing to die. With the sun setting behind their backs and the chill wind whipping up puffs of dust, they formed a semicircle and watched as the tribal fathers emerged from the steaming lodge...
...months and cost $5,000,000. Another way out is to reduce through controlled burning the amount of duff under the trees. In either case, however, delay could be perilous. Similar conditions, on a smaller scale, existed during a fire in 1970, and only the fact that the wind suddenly died down kept that blaze from becoming a holocaust...
...traditional pomp. Australian aborigines wore only breechcloths, their bodies painted in geometric patterns of dots and streaks. Along with tribal women in short yellow skirts, they leaped and stomped and mimed their version of the Last Supper to the rhythm of clapping hands, tapping sticks and a primitive wood wind called the didgeridoo...
...your body to make it a good receptor: the body is an awareness, and it must be treated impeccably." Easier said than done. Part of the training involved minutely, even piously attuning the senses to the desert, its animals and birds its sounds and shadows, the shifts in its' wind, and the places in which a shaman might confront its spirit entities-spots of power, holes of refuge. When Castaneda describes his education as a hunter and plant-gatherer, learning about the virtues of herbs, the trapping of rabbits, the narrative is absorbing Don Juan and the desert enable...
...either as a producer in his bright, psychedelic office in Rockefeller Center or as a director in a spartan white study at the top of his Manhattan town house. After the draining experience of Night Music, however, he plans to sit and read for a while, and will eventually wind up, no doubt, at the remote mountaintop house he and his wife Judy have in Majorca. "I am going to try to break the pattern," he says. "My God, I've been at this for 20 years...