Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when invoking countless cliches. Take the first moments in the film: after the opening shot of a spear and some armor sitting on a rock in the hot sun, the camera rousingly pans the still ships, accelerating as it goes along, and ends in a shot of the entire beach, covered with naked, sweating Greek soldiers. In a moment, the Greeks divide respectfully into two lines, as Agamemnon and Menelaus ride through. Suddenly, a man keels over in the path of the horses. He is duly removed. This is to show you how hot it is. Or take the scene...
...Unknown Soldier, Carter did an abbreviated replay of last January's Pennsylvania Avenue walkathon. He strolled several blocks down the Champs-Elysees with President Giscard, even worrying his Secret Service protectors by striding into curbside crowds. The next day he helicoptered to Normandy and walked along Omaha Beach-site of some of D-day's heaviest fighting-and laid a wreath at the American military cemetery where 9,386 casualties of that epic assault are buried...
...have settled in the occupied territories. "What right does anyone have to tell people they will not be in Israel?" demanded David Margalit, who lives in the northern Sinai settlement of Yamit. Cried an American emigrant who also lives in Yamit: "I didn't come from Miami Beach to live in Egypt!" As settlers demonstrated outside, a member of Begin's own Likud coalition, Moshe Shamir, argued their case in the Knesset: "My heart is laden with pain as I see our settlers in Judea, Samaria and Sinai cry out in agony as their dreams are shattered before...
Next came the touchy matter of telling Burns. Tuesday evening Carter himself reached Burns in West Palm Beach and asked him to come to Washington, without saying why. Mondale was dispatched in an Air Force DC-9 to pick up Burns. The flight to Washington was quite stilted with Mondale and Burns both knowing what they should be talking about but never mentioning...
...honeymoon will wait until February, when the Palm Beach, Fla. exhibition of his prison paintings has closed. Still, Watergater E. Howard Hunt, 59, found time to pop open some bubbly and toast his new bride. She is Laura Martin, 31, a former Georgia schoolteacher whom he met through friends over a year ago. It has been ten months since Hunt finished his jail term for Watergate burglary, and he says, "I'm very optimistic and look forward to peace and quiet." And prosperity. Hunt's paintings have been moving well (one recently went...