Word: beirutization
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...Madrid. The critics on the whole have been approving, although some have taken an occasional dig at our artists. "Marvels of technique and characterization," wrote the Jerusalem Post of some of the paintings, adding cheerfully about certain others: "Kitsch does not always make a bad cover." The critic of Beirut's French-language paper L'Orient-Le Jour called TIME "a culture by itself" with "an influence as strong as a tidal wave." Declared the Guardian after the show opened in London: "Like pecan pie and The Star-Spangled Banner, TIME magazine cover portraits seem...
...grim contrast to its publicity brochures, Beirut's 26-floor Holiday Inn last week was more a nightmare than a dream come true. The only visitors lingering in the shell-pocked, fire-scorched tower beside the Mediterranean were alternating bands of Christian militiamen trying to hold their hotel stronghold and Moslem fighters intent on blasting them out with rockets and tanks. The Christian Phalangists lost the hotel, won it back briefly, then lost it for good as Moslem riflemen stormed into the shattered lobby, fought their way up from floor to floor and savagely tossed the body...
...battle of the Holiday Inn was typical of the bloody skirmishing in Beirut last week as the city trembled under the worst fighting yet in the eleven-month struggle between Christians and Moslems, right and left, haves and havenots. The capital was on the verge of final collapse. The crisis had international dimensions; with Lebanon unable to stop the fighting, there was a possibility that Syria might move in, and if Syria moved, there was also the threat of an Israeli countermove...
...first time, both sides in Beirut wheeled up heavy artillery. Most civilians, accustomed to gunfire and mortars, did not recognize the sound of howitzer fire as the first shells came arcing out of the mountains ringing Beirut to burst with gigantic splashes in the Mediterranean alongside the seafront boulevards. As the gunners found their range, reported TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager, the shells began to slam into office buildings and apartment houses. Sound trucks sped through the hastily cleared streets warning citizens: "Go to your basements and avoid elevators when the shells come." For some, the warning was too late...
Front Man. The combination of more stalemate and more rebellion evidently was the last straw for the military. Sitting in his Beirut headquarters beneath a portrait of Franjieh, Ahdab told reporters the morning after his surprise television broadcast: "For God's sake, we have been patient for ten months, and if we had waited one more day, there would have been uncontrollable bloodshed." The choice of Ahdab as the military's front man was apparently carefully calculated by a group of Christian and Moslem officers to give the coup a nonreligious character. He is the highest-ranking Sunni...