Word: charlestoners
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...Charleston dig, on the site of a future highway, has yielded valuable new evidence about 17th century living, experts said yesterday...
...Institute of Conservation Archaeology (ICA), a division of the Peabody Museum, has made significant discoveries of artifacts from colonial Massachusetts life near the Charleston Naval Yard...
...plot is simple young, fabulously wealthy, wildly extravagant and supposedly beautiful Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) stops doing the Charleston on Istanbul tabletops long enough to learn that she has 12 days to lind her long lost father. Should she fail to exhibit him in a British court in that time he will be declared dead, and the company fortune will devolve upon daddy's evil partner Bentik (Robert Morlev) The prospect propels her into a harrowing two-week adventure in which hundreds of extras die and she herself narrowly escapes a dozen terrible ends. Along for the ride is Patrick...
...first stop is Afghanistan, Eve's father's last known destination. In the wilds of Afghanistan our trio encounters its first foreign culture, a rebel horde intent on driving out the British. (This, incidentally, makes the action hard to date precisely: Afghanistan won its independence in 1919, but the Charleston did not become popular overseas until the mid-20's.) Typical barbarians, they sing ethnic songs, dance wildly, offer to buy Eve, and delight in killing Enlishmen.(Never mind that the Afghans were nationalists fighting for liberation.) No tears, then, when O'Malley bombs half the camp out of existence...
...suave, cynical Peer of Part II (played with acute perceptivity by Gerry Bamman) defines himself by what he does and not by what he is. And what he does is always tainted by easy accommodation and the habit of incessant compromise. He moves from trading slaves out of Charleston, S.C., and shipping pagan idols to China to reigning as a prophet in the Moroccan desert, finally ending up crowned "the Emperor of Self in a Cairo mad house, with a wreath of straw...