Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes it's the little things that count. How little? In San Diego last week U.S. Customs agents seized Atlantis II, an $80 million research vessel once used to explore the wrack of the Titanic, after a routine search turned up traces of pot in the shaving kit of a crew member along with two marijuana pipes. The ship was returned, but only when its owner, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, agreed to send Customs officials a letter supporting the antidrug campaign and promising to tighten security. Zero tolerance strikes again...
ERIC CLAPTON: CROSSROADS (Polydor). Twenty-five years of mean guitar spread over 73 (count 'em) cuts. There're genius, passion and elegance here, as well as a fair bit of fluff...
Calling for an end to the fighting, Brigadier General Ghazi Kenaan, Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon, threatened to move in and silence the guns. "Our forces will promptly shoot at any gunman in sight," he warned. By week's end, however, the casualty count in the continuing factional feud stood at some 250 dead and more than 800 wounded, and still Syria's 7,500 troops remained poised on the sidelines...
...head next to Toronto, then Washington. Back in Montreal, a new, even more theatrical show is being planned. In the meantime, performers move in and out of the Cirque's cast as the show travels. The youngest so far is seven-year-old Annie Wagner-Bouthillier, one of 14 -- count them -- 14 riders in a bicycle balancing stunt. In Manhattan's Battery Park City, it should not be hard to recognize her. She'll be the one with the big smile...
VARSITY Liquor is moving out. The little store wedged into a corner of the Square next to the Tasty has been serving the neighborhood for more than 50 years. Although the Varsity could never boast a huge selection, students could always count on it for beer or booze for extracurricular activities...