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v implacable as Mount Rushmore

... v implacable as Mount Rushmore who lived in its shadow. You may be tired of these recollections, some more honourable than others, you may even be sceptical of possible opportunism by the media. But let it be said that in 20 years’ time,when anewgeneration ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 601 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Making a Mount Rushmore out of Arthur’s Seat

... Making a Mount Rushmore out of Arthur’s Seat OBERT Louis Stevenson de- Rscribed Arthur’s Seat as “a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design”. Its 832-feet-high bulk has been likened to a lion couchant, a sphinx and a small but shapely ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1997
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 642 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

An added attraction for tourists visiting the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota, this month, is ..

... An added attraction for tourists visiting the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota, this month, is the annual spring cleaning of the gigantic granite faces of four presidents carved in the mountain. In this picturc a hand-operated winch has ...

Published: Thursday 20 May 1965
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 164 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

‘I don’t know what I’m doing here. It’s like waking up and seeing your face on Mount Rushmore’

... ‘I don’t know what I’m doing here. It’s like waking up and seeing your face on Mount Rushmore’ is true. He is far removed from the redneck image that some would associate with country music. The son of a general, he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, flew ...

Published: Monday 13 April 1992
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Left: Statue of Liberty, New York. Centre: Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota, with the faces of ..

... Left: Statue of Liberty, New York. Centre: Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota, with the faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln carved in granite. Right: the Canadian Houses of Parliament, Ottawa. s %b T D LR U e ” F Ak \ 5 : ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1965
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

It’s s art but is it Reagan? We can understand why the Americans feel gratitude and affection for ‘the ..

... gratitude and affection for ‘the president who won the Cold War', says Allan Massie, but the proposal to commemorate him on Mount Rushmore is absurd AKE ME back to the Black Hills, the Black Hills of Dakota,” sang Doris Day in Calamity Jane. Now a bill is being ...

Published: Tuesday 02 March 1999
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1891 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Conservatives revive tight to carve Reagan’s place in history LOUISE BRANSON

... deficit in US history. Mr Norquist believes, how: ever, that if Mr Reagan’s like- Ronald Reagan: Candidate for Mount Rushmore? ness is on Mount Rushmore and his name on highways and buildings across the country, it will automatically announce that he was a great ...

Published: Tuesday 02 March 1999
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 649 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Fiim of the Day North By Northwest It's got the scene with the crop-spraying plane. It's got the scene on

... Fiim of the Day North By Northwest It's got the scene with the crop-spraying plane. It's got the scene on Mount Rushmore. It’s got Eve Marie Saint, as a fabulously blonde quadruple agent. It’s got Cary Grant. All in all, it’s Hitchcock at his most (1959) ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 50 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

FliesandShel‘bEt ‘Dark is the suedle’,‘that mdfis like a harvest’ Itsa carve-up

... bEt ‘Dark is the suedle’,‘that mdfis like a harvest’ Itsa carve-up SO PAISLEY sculptor Sand[: Stoddart wants to make a Mount Rushmore out of Salisbury Crags? Expressions of incredulity greeted the report earlier this week that Stoddart would like to carve ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1997
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

North By Northwest

... damsels in a classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller, brimming with unforgettable set pieces such as the cropduster chase and the Mount Rushmore climax. Everyone should see this at least once. 1959 BBC 2, 9-11.10 pm ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1998
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 50 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

... were the two candidates for Vice- President of the United States this year? 3 Which American Presidents are carved into Mount Rushmore? 4 What is the state capital of Florida? 5 And what, incidentally, is the capital of Chad? ...

Published: Sunday 31 December 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 73 | Tags: none

lAN PROCTOR

... million Lego bricks have gone into building thousands of exhibits! In one model — a huge 30-foot high representation of Mount Rushmore, with its massive sculptures of American presidents — one-and-a-half million bricks have gone into the making of four ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1987
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 17 | Tags: none