Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's water, water everywhere," a tour guide assures the visitor. "And plenty else to drink." Just so. Water fountains for the thirsty were in short supply last week, but a daiquiri stand was an instant success, as was the bar in the Australian Pavilion (where an oversize can of Foster's Lager was going for $5.50, and going very well indeed). Swelling the city's already eclectic cuisine is an international array of offerings from bratwurst and gelato to the spicy home-town jambalaya. Some food sellers, however, particularly those...
...Connecticut-based ESPN ranks among the cable channels most likely to succeed. The network offers round-the-clock sports, ranging from college basketball to Australian football. On weekday mornings, ESPN supplies two hours of financial news on its popular Business Times program. Despite an unanticipated loss of more than $80 million since its start five years ago, the channel is expected to break even by the first quarter of 1985. Last year advertising sales, the bulk of ESPN's revenue, jumped 60%, to $40 million...
...impressionistic, slapdash storytelling is in part about MacLaine's affair with a married politician, camouflaged as a British M.P. but speculated, depending on the continent, to be former Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock or former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. The romance, however, is secondary to the book's mixed bag of metaphysics. MacLaine asserts that Jesus Christ developed mystical powers during years of study among holy men in India. She contends that "trance mediums" have enabled her to recall past lives. Although she privately acknowledges that she encountered a number of frauds, the book's exuberant...
...CLASSICS has always been a popular--yet usually fruitless--pastime for filmmakers, as any views of last summer's pathetic reworking of the 1948 French classic Breathless can attest to Even superstud Richard Gere couldn't save Breathless flaccid plot. And in The Bounty, even fine performances by Australian hearthrob Mel Gibson and the superb English character actor Anthony Hopkins cannot sustain this reinterpretation of the well-known Mutiny on the Bounty saga. The Bounty reflects a prevalent new twist in the remake trend, seen earlier this spring in Greystoke, the latest turn to the Tatzan story. Both films purport...
MARRIED. Colleen McCullough, 46, Australian meganovelist (The Thorn Birds) who for three years has lived on tiny Norfolk Island, 900 miles east of Brisbane; and Ric Robinson, 33, Norfolk Islander who two years ago painted her house to earn money for a palm plantation; she for the first time, he for the second; near Sydney...