Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speakers at the conference included local, national and international native American speakers, Chicano representatives who live near the mine site, and Anglo representatives Helen Caldicott, the Australian author of Nuclear Madness, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus. The gathering provided the basis for ongoing resistance to uranium and coal mining slated for Lakota, Spokane, Ojibwa, Dine and Navajo reservations, along with the land of many other native Americans. Local Chicano residents have been significantly affected by the national nuclear waste isolation pilot project located on a Chicano land grant in the southern part of the state. For these...
...lived on the land for a year and it was aloof. I became pregnant. I had strange dreams. I thought about death. I grubbed in the garden, fought blackberries, photographed the green river, sat on top of the hill and looked at the valley in the blinding, opaque Australian sunlight. The land looked back and never blinked. I felt free to roam the cleared fields, but at the edge of the bush I felt an emotional barrier: no humans wanted. The kookaburras cackled derisively, and I inagined how the original settlers must have felt on first hearing that dismembered sound...
MANY ARTISTS and writers have made the peculiar elusive quality of the Australian land the center of their work. Writers like Patrick White, painters like Sidney Nolan, have celebrated the passive hostility of a continent completely alien and unimaginably ancient. Until recently, there has been no Australian cinema. Peter Weir is one of its pioneers. With the assistance of the South Australian film Corporation, recently established by a culturally alert state Labor government, Weir made Picnic at Hanging Rock. Well-received at the Cannes film Festival in 1976, the film has only recently been released here following the success...
...girls exchange flowery, cherub-studded cards in the morning, vow undying love, and set out in their carriage. The mixture of the everyday and the bizarre, so essential to any good horror movie, is achieved perfectly, as the scariest sequences are shot in that stark, glaring Australian daylight. The complicity of the primal landscape with the repressed spirituality and sexuality of the girls always present but never overdone...
Eric Fromm, Columbia's 1978 number one has turned pro and is reportedly getting "killed" on the European circuit. Two Australian Lions had to be stamped "return to sender" for financial and academic reasons; and the team's top 1979 player, Jeff Papell, was lost to a torn rotator cuff in his shoulder...