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  Walter Hill (Wild Bill)
Hill, however, is not convinced that the Western is indeed making a comeback, especially in its traditional genre form.
Hill, who is aware of the controversy, is nonetheless surprised to learn that Blockbuster Video has put many of his films on moratorium due to their violence content ("What, they're not stocking my movies at Blockbuster?").
As Hill sees it there are three keys to the presentation of a story: the cinematographer, the production designer, and the film editor, all tempered by the vision of the director.
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 Wave Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Wave Hill House was built in 1843 as a country retreat by William Lewis Morris, a jurist and a member of a old and distinguished New York family.
William Appleton, a publisher, resided at Wave Hill from 1866-1903 and twice expanded the house in 1866-69 and in 1890.
Wave Hill's 28 acres overlook the Hudson River and the Palisades.
www.sundanceoutdoor.org /metro_wave_hill.html   (456 words)

  
 GC Student, Faculty, and Staff Picnic at Wave Hill in Riverdale, NY – Friday, June 27, 2003
Wave Hill is a spectacular public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades; it is an oasis of serenity for all visitors.
Wave Hill maintains award-winning gardens and greenhouses; manages an urban woodland; provides environmental education for NYC children, teachers, and over 110,000 visitors annually; offers arts activities for children that strengthen environmental awareness; conducts projects in landscape history and design; and presents exhibitions, readings, concerts, lectures, and workshops that examine the aesthetic response to nature.
Wave Hill is operated by an independent non-profit cultural organization; the buildings and grounds are owned by the City of New York.
math.gc.cuny.edu /wave_hill_picnic_6-27-03.htm   (450 words)

  
 environmentalcareer.com environmental & natural resources careers & job listings
Wave Hill and Lehman College are collaborating to provide a summer job opportunity combined with academic studies in Plant Science and Urban Forest Ecology for Bronx high school students.
Wave Hill is a 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River in the Bronx.
Wave Hill is a public garden and one of the thirty-four New York City-owned cultural institutions.
environmentalcareer.com /WaveHill.htm   (964 words)

  
 wave - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Wave Motion, atoms behaving as waves, electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves, history of discovery of electromagnetic waves, light waves,...
Wave Motion, in physics, mechanism by which energy is conveyed from one place to another in mechanically propagated waves without the transference...
In his late works Hokusai used large, broken strokes and a method of coloring that imparted a more somber mood to his work, as in his massive...
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 Wave Hill's lush gardens, art exhibits will seem worlds away
Underneath the pergola, which greets visitors as they enter Wave Hill, Zoe Rosenberg and her mother Connie Gruen were painting flowers in bright shades of acrylic on canvas boards.
Gruen said she discovered Wave Hill when she brought Zoe there for a children's art class, one of the garden's many educational programs.
Wave Hill offers year-round family and adult workshops, lectures and demonstrations, as well as an outdoor summer dance series, concert series and art exhibitions.
cityguide.pojonews.com /fe/DayTrips/stories/dt_wave_hill_gardens.asp   (691 words)

  
 Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/29/2006 | Rietveld's 1918 design still strong.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Wave Hill's garden version of the chair sells for $180 plus shipping, and do-it-yourself plans are available for $10 to $20.
The design is so popular that Wave Hill sells the chairs in two sizes, for adults and children.
Wave Hill (www.wavehill.org) sells Rietveld-style garden chairs in two sizes, for adults and children ($180 plus shipping), as well as plans for its version of the chair, which was adapted from Rietveld's design in the 1960s ($10).
www.philly.com /mld/inquirer/living/home/design/15634150.htm   (823 words)

  
 About Wave Hill, The Bronx New York: Historical Notes, Description of Collections
Wave Hill House was built as a country home in 1843 by jurist William Lewis Morris.
The Perkins leased Wave Hill house to an eminent zoologist, Bashford Dean.
In 1960, the Perkins-Freeman family deeded Wave Hill to the City of New York; Wave Hill, Inc. was formed in 1965 as a nonprofit corporation.
www.museumregister.com /US/NewYork/Bronx/WaveHill/AboutWaveHill.html   (272 words)

  
 Colleges & Grad Schools - Kerlins Say Thanks With $8 Million to Bank Street and Wave Hill
Bank Street College of Education and Wave Hill are pleased to announce that the two New York City institutions have each received a $4-million gift from Sally and Gilbert Kerlin.
Kerlin is the Founding Chairman of Wave Hill and has been a member of the Board of Directors for the past 36 years.
Wave Hill is a 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and the Palisades in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
www.educationupdate.com /archives/2002/jan_02/htmls/college_kerlin.html   (860 words)

  
 PEP, April 2005: Wave Hill workers vote to join District Council 37
By GREGORY N. Workers at the 28-acre Wave Hill garden and cultural center in the Bronx voted overwhelmingly to join DC 37.
The 16-year Wave Hill worker wore a DC 37 pin on the day of the vote.
The Wave Hill group will likely be included within one of the union locals that represent workers at cultural institutions, she said.
www.dc37.net /news/pep/4_2005/wavehill.html   (623 words)

  
 Teachers College Columbia University
Riverdale’s own Wave Hill retains the charm and beauty of an opulent age that existed over one hundred and fifty years ago.
Wave Hill has been occupied or visited by Teddy Roosevelt, Arturo Toscanini, Queen Mother Elizabeth, celebrities, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals.
For all of us at MSSC, Wave Hill has served as a welcome meeting place for professional growth and exploration.
www.tc.columbia.edu /centers/mssc/wavehill.htm   (341 words)

  
 Hiking Wave Hill
They leased Wave Hill House to Bashford Dean, a zooligist and curator of armor at the Metropolitan Museum, who built the Armor Hall on the Wave Hill mansion in order to house his growing armor collection.
The eight-acre natural area at Wave Hill has a variety of plant communities, with approximately 250 species of vascular plants, of which a relatively high proportion are introduced.
The natural area is being managed by the Wave Hill Forest Project to favor native plant species.
www.nynjctbotany.org /lgtofc/lgwavehl.html   (750 words)

  
 Wave Hill (New York) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wave Hill is a 28 acre (113,000 m²) botanical garden in New York City's Riverdale neighborhood, situated in the Bronx, USA.
The original Wave Hill House was built in 1843 by William Lewis Morris in Greek Revival style, and owned from 1866-1903 by William Henry Appleton, who enlarged the house in 1866-69 and again in 1890.
Theodore Roosevelt's family rented Wave Hill during the summers of 1870 and 1871, and Mark Twain leased it from 1901-1903.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wave_Hill_(New_York)   (246 words)

  
 Cultural Organization of the Month: June 2005
Wave Hill is a 28-acre public garden and cultural institution overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
Wave Hill House Gallery exhibiting artist Bryony Ann Romer leads this workshop that draws on the history of collage and the city's wild past to envision a green future.
This year marks Wave Hill's 40th as a public institution--a landmark anniversary that inspires pride in the past, joy in the present, and great enthusiasm for the future.
www.nycvisit.com /content/index.cfm?pagepkey=1550   (861 words)

  
 Blue Sage: Wave Hill
Wave Hill has popped up in a friend's Flickr photostream many times in connection with photos of his kids running down a grassy hill.
Because I am an ignorant and poorly-informed New Yorker, I filed Wave Hill away in my brain as the name of a grassy hill somewhere in the Bronx that looks vaguely like a wave.
Later, a co-worker of Derek's got a job at Wave Hill, so I surmised that it might involve a bit more than a grassy hill.
www.jjdayfamily.com /cindy/blog/archives/2006/06/wave_hill.html   (751 words)

  
 Special, History, Art, Nature -- Wave Hill
Tucked away behind Henry Hudson Parkway in Riverdale, nestled beside the Hudson River, is Wave Hill, one of New York City's finer cultural institutions.
With twenty-eight acres of beautiful property and four greenhouses overlooking the Hudson, Wave Hill serves as a laboratory for discovery of humanity's relation to the environment.
Wave Hill offers a year-round schedule of events, visual and performing arts, and programs for individuals and families in the fields of horticulture, forest management, and landscape history and design.
www.fieldtrip.com /ny/85493200.htm   (414 words)

  
 PEP, May 2006: Wave Hill workers ratify first union contract
DC 37 members at the Wave Hill garden and cultural center voted 13-2 on March 20 to approve their first contract, which includes an immediate $2,700 raise.
The Wave Hill employees, who are members of Local 374, voted to join the union in March 2005.
Besides Dickerson, the Bargaining Committee included Wave Hill employees José Concepcion and Jessica Menijvar, Moira Dolan of the Research and Negotiations Dept., Steven Sykes of the Legal Dept. and Keith Clarke of the White Collar Division.
www.dc37.net /news/PEP/5_2006/wavehill.html   (385 words)

  
 Wave Hill - Great Public Spaces | Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
Wave Hill is a public garden and cultural center.
Wave Hill is a spectacular 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades in the northwest Bronx.
Wave Hill also has a cafe on its grounds, which offers a lovely menu.
www.pps.org /great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id=704   (377 words)

  
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Bronx, NY Perched on a hill overlooking the Hudson River and the Palisades, Wave Hill is comprised of 28 acres of gardens, greenhouses and woodlands open to the public since 1965, five years after the Perkins-Freeman family deeded the property to the City of New York.
Much of its stunning visual appeal can be attributed to the stewardship of Marco Polo Stufano, Wave Hill's first Director of Horticulture, whose guidance transformed the site from neglected to spectacular and whose cutting-edge vision and gifts for combining colors, textures and forms still informs the garden's varied borders and planting designs.
Wave Hill is open Tuesdays through Sundays year-round and certain holiday Mondays.
www.americangardenmuseum.com /showcase_wavehill.html   (235 words)

  
 The Gurindji Strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gurindji Strike (or Wave Hill Walk-Off) refers to the walk-off and strike by 200 Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families in August 1966 at Wave Hill cattle station in Australia's Northern Territory.
Wave Hill cattle station, which included the Kalkaringi and Daguragu area, was first stocked in 1883.
In 1914 Wave Hill Station was bought by Vesteys, a British pastoral company comprising a large conglomerate of cattle companies owned by Baron Vestey.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wave_Hill_Walkoff   (2332 words)

  
 Prehnite from Wave Hill, Northern Territory is the finest prehnite in the world. Amethyst, agate, smoky quartz, beta ...
On the first trip to Wave Hill, he realised the potential of the area to produce fine quality prehnite but also identified other gem and mineral reserves of economic significance.
As well as prehnite, a number of other minerals are also found at Wave Hill such as agate, amethyst, amethyst geodes, beta quartz, calcite, chalcedony, chalcedony pseudomorphs after calcite and other minerals, hematite, iceland spar, natrolite, quartz, smoky quartz, scolecite and, possibly, other zeolites.
Wave Hill agate is found predominantly reds, pinks and white with bands of quartz crystals between the agate bands.
www.openallday.au.com /Wave_Hill_Prehnite.html   (1495 words)

  
 NYC ARTS - Organization Details
The Wave Hill Café is located in Wave Hill House and offers visitors light fare and a sweeping view of the Hudson River and Palisades.
Wave Hill is a short walk from the 252nd Street bus stop, served by the BX 7 or 10 buses.
Located among the leafy estates of Riverdale, Wave Hill is a former private residence featuring well-kept gardens, beautifully sculpted grounds, woodlands and fine views of the New Jersey Palisades.
www.nyc-arts.org /oDetail.aspx?OrgID=1139   (492 words)

  
 Wave Hill Gardeners' Party - September 25, 2006 - The New York Sun
When they weren't shopping for plants, guests admired their surroundings at Wave Hill, the 28-acre public garden situated on the banks of the Hudson River in Riverdale.
Now there are new greenhouses, a visitor's center, children's classes, adult lectures, and art exhibits installed in the mansion, inhabited over the years by Theodore Roosevelt and Arthur Toscanini.
Over the years, Wave Hill has grown and flourished in its life as a public resource.
www.nysun.com /article/40292   (499 words)

  
 Wave Hill, New York City
"A non-profit cultural institution located on 28 acres in the northwest Bronx, Wave Hill is dedicated to exploring the interaction between human beings and the natural environment.
The Arts Program at Wave Hill presents the work of contemporary artists and landscape professionals whose work explores, demonstrates, or otherwise reflects upon the dynamic relationship between human beings and natural phenomena."
Wave Hill is a short, pleasant walk from the 252nd Street bus stop, served by the BX 7 or 10 buses.
www.ny.com /museums/wave.hill.html   (154 words)

  
 Alder: Wave Hill Website Case Study
In the first workshop, we talked through Wave Hill's goals for the website — foremost, to encourage website visitors to visit the gardens in person — and developed a set of imaginary people to represent Wave Hill's diverse target audiences (this is a traditional technique called “persona development”).
One Wave Hill's primary goals was to present visitors with a “visual wow” experience which showcased their garden photographs.
To ensure that we were going in the right direction, we asked a set of potential users of the Wave Hill site to work through a set of tasks in this prototype — for instance, to find out what gardens they should make sure to see for their visit in June.
www.alderconsulting.com /wavehill.html   (889 words)

  
 Wave Hill - NY - New York City
Wave Hill House was built as a country home in 1843 by jurist William Lewis Morris, and from 1866-1903 was owned by publisher William Henry Appleton.
In 1960, the Perkins-Freeman family deeded Wave Hill to the City of New York; through strong, local community leadership, Wave Hill was formed as a public garden governed by a volunteer Board of Directors in 1965.
Wave Hill is now one of 33 City owned cultural institutions.
www.volunteernyc.org /org/1456208.html   (347 words)

  
 WAVE HILL - Historical Sign
Over a century old, the Wave Hill estate of Riverdale is one of New York City’s most beautiful parks.
The Morris family resided at Wave Hill from 1843 to 1852.
Today Wave Hill boasts one of the most impressive arboretums in New York City, and its placement in the heart of Riverdale enhances the appearance of the entire neighborhood.
www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11678   (568 words)

  
 Four decades after Wave Hill, Aborigines in renewed battle for land Independent, The (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
But as crowds of people descended on Wave Hill for anniversary celebrations this weekend, indigenous leaders warned that changes to the legislation could erode their hard-won rights.
At Wave Hill, which was bought in 1914 by Vesteys, there had been complaints about working conditions for years.
Now 90, Mr Whitlam was unable to travel to Wave Hill for the anniversary because his health has deteriorated.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060819/ai_n16669516   (925 words)

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