Word: beirutization
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...year-old ancestral home in the mountains outside Beirut that Bashir Gemayel received us for the interview. From the windows of the pink stone house there is a breathtakingly beautiful view of the mountain slopes with their olive groves and grapevines among gray boulders. But Maronite Christians like the Gemayels did not settle in Lebanon because of its beauty. They chose those mountains because of security, a rugged area ideal for defense, where a lonely Christian community could defend itself and survive in a sea of sometimes hostile Muslim neighbors. The Maronites survived without ever being reduced to minority status...
DIED. Bashir Gemayel, 34, President-elect of Lebanon; of injuries sustained in a bomb blast; in East Beirut (see WORLD...
...mystique of influence surrounding Daily Variety (circ. 19,650) and the Hollywood Reporter (circ. 15,551) is all the more impressive given their small readership and narrow focus (Variety covered the war in Lebanon by noting how it had affected the box office at Beirut movie theaters). Moreover, both publications can be fooled into announcing projects that have neither financing, script nor star, nor reasonable likelihood of ever getting them. Admits respected Variety Reporter James Harwood: "We have printed hundreds of titles that were never made." No one seems to mind. Explains Producer Albert Ruddy (The Godfather, The Cannonball...
...case on nationwide TV: nowadays world leaders talk past the President to the American public. Later, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon turned but in Washington, sent by Begin and invited not by our Government but by the of Bond Organization. After all the traumatic nightly "visuals" of the bombing of Beirut, Sharon was hot copy, and in the genteel pushing and shoving over CBS would get him among the rival Sunday-morning talk shows, CBS won. Or thought...
...program continued a half-hour longer, ABC had a limo waiting outside CBS to take Sharon to its studios four blocks away. That particular Brinkley show illustrates how eagerly foreigners play to the American audience: the show began with a P.L.O. spokesman offering up baffling evasions from Beirut, jumped to interview King Hussein by satellite in Jordan, then in Washington brought on the Sharon it had whisked away from...