Word: corals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were six of us sitting in the darkened living room, watching in despair as the flames flickered and flared up the coast. The smoking rails of the coral and the huge crossbeams of the Forests' house across the streets still glowed faintly through the dark, but the engines had long since abandoned the hopeless effort and gone clanging off to some other front where they were more desperately needed. The fire had disappeared over the hill, leaving only the charred grasses, and the stooped figures, silently picking their way through the smoldering ashes...
...inviting ad shows coral reefs, blue water and the green-carpeted Caribbean island of St. Lucia. But the advertiser is not an airline seeking to entice vacation travelers. It is an obscure federal agency, the Overseas Private Investment Corp., drumming up business for the political-risk insurance it sells to U.S. firms that operate in the Third World. OPIC is a bright star in Washington at a time when many departments are in eclipse. Says OPIC President Craig Nalen: "We are a real Administration success story...
Since then, Nordic designers have given every European style their distinct mark. Denmark's Georg Jensen's silver and opal Dragonfly brooch (1904) and fellow Dane Erik Magnussen's Grasshopper brooch (1907) of silver and coral are unmistakably art nouveau. They are also unmistakably Scandinavian. Like virtually all the objects in this exhibition, they show the patient toil brought to bear on stubborn, natural materials. This is what Frank Lloyd Wright called "organic" design...
...fourth case surfaced in Houston. Coral Eugene Watts, 28, a bus mechanic, was about to go to trial for burglary and attempted murder when authorities announced an unusual plea-bargain deal. In exchange for a 60-year sentence on the burglary charge, making him eligible for parole in 20 years, as he would have been had he received a life sentence for murder, Watts agreed to help clear up a string of unsolved weekend murders of women in Texas. By the end of last week, Watts had admitted to strangling or stabbing eleven women (his motive: women are "evil...
...works now, or completed and on Bell's shelves are scores of products and services. In Coral Gables, Fla, and Ridgewood, N.J., Bell has been experimenting with so-called electronic yellow pages. Using ordinary telephone lines, this service feeds news and classified ads into subscribers' television sets. Says Morris Tanenbaum, AT&T's executive vice president for planning: "We're very bullish on this...