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...back far in history. At the end of World War I, the French Army occupied Lebanon and Syria, and the English Army Palestine. At this moment there was not what is now called Lebanon. There was a Christian "little Lebanon," limited to the mountain. The littoral cities did not belong to it. In 1920, the French Government decided to create the "Great Lebanon," in its actual borders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lebanon: A Native's Perspective | 8/16/1983 | See Source »

These relationships are very male-oriented. If a guy wants a girl, he tells someone to tell her. If she agrees, she is his, body and all. Just anyone can't belong to this exclusive society; the two heroines--Debbie (Nell Schofield) and Sue (Jad Capelja)--come from good middle-class homes, do well at school, and consequently are initially classified as "nerds" (The word means the same in Australian.) The two aspire to join the surfer gang, shedding their morals by cheating on exams, getting drunk, and getting laid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When Fall Comes | 8/16/1983 | See Source »

...decks cleared and eager to go forward." So, without further argument or appeals, AT&T announced last week that it had agreed to give up its historic Bell name and blue-and-white telephone logo. Federal Judge Harold Greene had ruled last month that the trademarks should belong to AT&T's local operating companies, which are scheduled to split off into seven independent regional units on Jan. 1. Bell Laboratories can retain the name, as can AT&T's foreign operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ma Who? | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

Fossey firmly establishes these animals in the world where they belong. She may give them cute names like Puck, Pantsy and Macho, but she maintains her scientific distance. There are enough kinship studies, spectographic charts and dung analyses to keep specialists happy. The general reader will be rewarded with adventure, in which virtually nothing has been distorted by preconception or self-absorption. Gorillas in the Mist is a work of direct and refreshing experience. If 1,000 Hamlets were chained to typewriters for eternity, they could not have written this book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Under the Volcanoes | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Works of a Woman's Hand | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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