Word: camels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Underwood, who is built something along the lines of an unlit, unfiltered Camel, looked down at the little fur ball and somehow made himself appear bigger. "I don't want nothing looks like that buried near Old Troop," he said...
...Antarctica for a spot of penguin watching. Looking for something really different? For $751 you can fly from Paris to Tamanrasset, an Algerian town at the edge of the Sahara. From there you travel by Land Rover on a two-week trek into the desert. You can ride a camel too, but beware of scorpions...
NICE TO COME AND SEE US BUSH read a sign held by two camel-borne nomads at a refugee camp in central Sudan, which is struggling to accommodate some 600,000 starving Ethiopians. Accompanied by his wife Barbara, dozens of officials, private figures like TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, and a gaggle of reporters, Vice President George Bush was on a six-day swing through famine-plagued Africa that also took him to Mali and Niger. "When you see a little child a year old weighing five pounds," he said, "you better start trying to press leaders who are unwilling...
...camel hair coat was stolen from a coat rack in the men's locker room at Hemenway Gym last Tuesday...
...that had also seized writers such as Pierre Loti and Gustave Flaubert and scholars like Sir Richard Burton, the Orientalist artists vied with one another in seeking out exotica. Harems aside, the subjects that most mesmerized them were slave markets, carpet bazaars, whirling dervishes, Arab stallions, caravans of caparisoned camels and wind-whipped burnooses of Bedouins on the sands of the Sahara. "There is a fortune to be made for painters in Cairo," noted William Makepeace Thackeray on a visit to Egypt in 1844. "I never saw such a variety of architecture, of life, of picturesqueness, of brilliant color...