Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breaks windows or swings from the chandeliers. There are no Lawrence of Arabia types to match the well-oiled revelers who made headlines among the sand dunes of Long Island after Fernanda Wetherill's legendary bash in 1963. Absent too is the spectacle of several years ago, when one Dallas daddy hired a three-ring circus, complete with elephants, for his daughter's party. "They're all playing it pretty conservative this year," explains Marge Waters, a close observer of the Dallas social scene...
Mobil entered the battles for Conoco and Marathon because it desperately wants to get additional domestic oil and gas sources to ease its dependence on supplies from Saudi Arabia and some potentially unstable countries. Even though Mobil spent $4.3 billion on domestic exploration and production between 1976 and 1980, its U.S. reserves declined by 6% in the past five years. Buying Marathon could increase Mobil's American oil supplies by 75%. For example, the Yates Field in West Texas, where Marathon owns a half-interest, now produces...
...AWACS) planes to Saudi Arabia. It was also hoped that the document would enable the Israeli government to accept more easily European participation in the Multinational Force and Observers (M.F.O.) that is to police the Sinai after Israel withdraws from Egyptian territory next April, as provided in the Camp David accords. That, apparently, it did. Late last week the U.S. and Israel issued a joint statement that was expected to clear the way for the inclusion of European troops (about 400 in all from Britain, France, Italy and The Netherlands). Israel had opposed the troops because the European Community...
...world's exaggerators, none surpasses the Arabs, whose language is a symphony of poetical excess. A Cairo gas station attendant greets his co-workers in the morning: "May your day be scented with jasmine." Sometimes the exaggerations that are inherent in Arabic can be dangerous. Saudi Arabia's late King Saud once told a visiting group of Palestinian journalists that "the Arabs must be ready to sacrifice a million lives to regain the sacred soil of Palestine." It was rhetoric, a flourish; Arabs hearing it would no more take it literally than would an American football crowd hearing...
...just about is. Reds is a big, smart movie, vastly ambitious and entertaining, full of belief in Reed and in the ability of a popular audience to respond to him. It combines the majestic sweep of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago-David Lean and Robert Bolt's mature and exhilarating epics-with the rueful comedy and historical fatalism of Citizen Kane. Resisting the megalomania that attends the making of blockbusters, Beatty plays it not safe but careful, stocking the movie with ingratiating motifs: Christmas trees, old songs, dogs, hats, chandeliers, white lilies, waiting taxis and one adorably solemn...