Word: woods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limb at a crowd-pleasing contest called the Downhill Canoe Race. The Skyway Lodge is full of schussers past and schussers yet-to-be, dates, officials, boots, parkas, day-packs, the friendly slurp of gulped hot chocolate, the crunch of doughnuts being engulfed, the smells of wet wool and wood smoke...
...separate. Outside, the evening cold has already crept in, and the hard outline of Virginia mountains has softened into darkness. Inside Hunter Holmes' one-room country store, three worn couches, a board placed on milk cases, and a few wooden chairs make a circle around a Buckeye 135 wood stove. The room is filled with people. The walls are lined with canned goods and staples like salt, sugar, cornmeal and motor oil. A blue denim jacket hangs from one shelf, and a few feet below it hangs a new white T shirt with green lettering that proclaims...
...England before she was found, volunteering (as she never did) no explanation for the only untoward incident in her otherwise gray tweed life. Actually, the true subjects of this movie, based on a story by Co-Scenarist Tynan, are cloche hats, potted palms, brass-and wood-fitted motorcars and, above all, the manners, styles and quaint equipment to be found a half-century ago in an expensive health spa like the one where Christie went to ground. These Director Apted photographs with a dreamy yet intensely curious eye, and the result is a slow but curiously absorbing entertainment, something like...
...People," Celia Dugger contends that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the federal utility that supplies energy to much of the southeastern United States, is becoming progressive. Dugger points out that the TVA has started to encourage the development of alternative energy sources, such as a small-scale solar and wood heating systems, and that this shift toward thinking small has been encouraged by the Carter Administration. But Dugger fails to tell the full story. The bulk of the TVA budget continues to go to large scale, ecologically destructive energy development, more so, unfortunately, under the Carter administration than ever before...
...T.V.A. is also trying a demonstration project with wood-burning stoves. Freeman explains that the forests replanted 40 years ago now cover 60 per cent of the valley. This wood has the potential to be an important and relatively inexpensive source of heat for residential users...