Word: aegean
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...scheme of his recent work sounds simple: arrays of long, narrow panels, as in Green (Earth), 1983-84, locked together in silent T formations with infills. They suggest the absolute forms of classic architecture -- columns and lintels bathed in Aegean light. The extreme subtlety of Marden's color speaks of nature. It is mixed and layered, skin upon slow skin of pigment and oil, bearing a history of growth, submergence and mellowing, containing light the way a sheet of marble stores the heat of afternoon. Paintings like this are ideal landscapes, and their august stasis recalls Byron's line: "When...
...Greece and Turkey, a fellow NATO member. That confrontation intensified after the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in which Greeks are the ethnic majority. During Papandreou's tenure, the two countries have failed to resolve long-standing disputes over air and sea jurisdiction around Greek islands off Turkey's Aegean coast, as well as over the 1983 declaration of independence by Turkish Cypriots in the zone under their control...
...monastery of Batalha or the Moorish stronghold of Cintra sell beautiful 18th century-style china for prices as low as $7 a plate. Greece is beyond cheap, particularly if you concentrate on the best bargain it has to offer: find yourself an out-of-the-way island in the Aegean--almost any of them will serve--and spend a week doing nothing. The wild flowers are already out by now, whole fields of yellow and purple, and there are rumors that habitable seaside cottages can still be bought outright for as little...
Despite pressure from the Greek delegation, the Soviets refused to be dragged into Greece's bitter dispute with Turkey over Cyprus, and the official communique contained only a vague acknowledgment of Greek claims in the Aegean Sea. Since Greece and Turkey are strategically placed close to the Black Sea, Moscow wants to maintain good relations with both countries. The Soviets pleased Papandreou by agreeing to build a gas pipeline through Bulgaria to Greece, starting in 1986, at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion. Moscow also promised to award Greek shipyards orders for four vessels worth $65 million and contracts...
...mandated policy of recent years to grant Greece the equivalent of at least 70% of military aid going to Turkey. Papandreou in turn hardened his stand toward NATO. Henceforth, he told a parliamentary group of his ruling Socialist party, Greece would not participate in any NATO exercises, in the Aegean or elsewhere, "unless the alliance changes its stance with regard to Greek- Turkish differences." By adding that condition, the Prime Minister left himself a loophole. Greece cannot afford to lose even an unsatisfactory U.S. aid package. Papandreou knows all too well that it would be impossible to replace such assistance...