Word: camelizing
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...Cecil B. DeMille," cracked one Western visitor, "eat your heart out!" For five hours last week, 20,000 dancers, 5,000 camel drivers and 3,500 horsemen gathered in the city of Kaduna for one of the biggest celebrations in the history of northern Nigeria. On hand to watch it were eight visiting heads of state; their Nigerian host, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo; and Andrew Young, Washington's new U.N. ambassador. Concluding his African odyssey, Young reached Nigeria in time to catch the finale of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture...
...lethal. "You wind up spending more, smoking more and getting far more dangerous combustion products for the same nicotine payoff as stronger cigarettes. Worse, it's probably a good guess that the low-tar brands are hooking millions of teenagers. When I was young, that first Camel or Lucky made so many kids sick that they stayed off cigarettes for good. Now so many brands are so weak that the kids don't get sick enough to stop right away. They just get hooked...
...negotiator Major Pierre Gallopin, who had served as a military adviser to the Chad government in its efforts to wipe out the very rebels who captured Claustre. Habre ordered his execution-reportedly by slitting open his abdomen and tying him to the hind legs of a camel. Four later envoys escaped alive, but were no more successful than Galopin in liberating Claustre. At one point, France delivered an $880,000 ransom in cash and promised another $ 1.4 million in the form of nonmartial military goods, including a field hospital. Habre refused the bait, and the result was the astonishing spectacle...
Battered Woman. Store windows also reflect the kinky trend. In Cambridge, the Camel's Hump boutique displayed a dead woman, blood running from her mouth, tumbling out of a garbage can. Men's shoes ("We'd Kill For These") were placed on her head and neck. Last fall, a Bon wit Teller window in Boston featured a woman dragging a female body wrapped...
However degrading, these images apparently sell merchandise. Cheeks sales for the final quarter were up 500% over the previous year, and the Camel's Hump display increased sales by 25%. The John Anthony jumpsuit worn by the battered woman in Avedon's Vogue pictures sold "beautifully," according to a company spokeswoman. "There was a lot of good reaction," she said, "so business-wise it was very successful...