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Or picture a tight left turn on Yosemite's Glacier Point Road where in the east iconic Half Dome suddenly appears against a backdrop of the snow-capped High Sierra.
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Although Bogart had already established his rugged screen persona in such films as "The Maltese Falcon" and "High Sierra, " his portrayal of Rick offered a reprise with added complexity and vulnerability.
WSJ: 'Play It Again, Sam,' and Again: A Sequel to Casablanca?
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Sixty years before Dartmouth undergrads schussed Mount Moosilauke in what is popularly regarded as the first downhill ski competition in the U.S., and 40 years before the first downhill race in Europe, miners--bored and snowbound in California's High Sierra--had already raced.
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Like "High Sierra" before it, "Colorado Territory" is a laconic portrait of a lonely gunman at the end of his tether, and the fact that McCrea, Hollywood's favorite white-hatted good guy, is playing against type adds to the film's emotional complexity.
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One such film is "Colorado Territory" (1949), in which Raoul Walsh transformed his own "High Sierra" (1941), a classic portrait of an aging gangster played by Humphrey Bogart, into an elegiac western starring Joel McCrea, taking the opportunity to trim away the sentimentality of "High Sierra" and replace it with hard stoicism.
WSJ: Tuning Up a Masterpiece | Sightings by Terry Teachout
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Officials have focused on deer mice, common in the high-elevation eastern Sierra Nevada region.
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Davenport owns a mansion on Portland Place, central London, which was previously the Sierra Leone High Commission.
BBC: 'Lord' Edward Davenport accomplices jailed over fraud
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The modern freeways and suburban sprawl give way to high grasslands in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve and dense redwood forests north of Santa Cruz.
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UN's high commissioner for human rights, visited Sierra Leone to discuss the creation of a peace and reconciliation commission.
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