Word: crescent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Woody remembers that trip, along with two earlier jaunts to the Crescent City, as high points of his life. Accompanied by Diane Keaton, he scurried around the French Quarter with his clarinet under his arm, looking, listening and sitting in with local jazzmen. "It was like watching Willie Mays all your life and then finding yourself in the outfield with him," Woody recalls. Festival producer George Wein even talked him into playing a set at one of the official concerts...
...outward signs were propitious. Secretary of State James Baker bounded down the stairs, hurried to Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's side and offered a hearty handshake. Smiling and pumping arms, they then began their maiden meeting in the glittering, baroque Festsaal in the sprawling Hofburg, that imperial crescent of stone buildings in the heart of Vienna. The locale was rich with inspiration: in 1815 the Congress of Vienna convened at the nearby chancellery to redraw the political face of Europe. Last week's gathering of 35 foreign ministers ushered in a modern-day reprise to redraft the Continent...
...silent four-minute ceremony that took place less than four hours after his father's death, Akihito, 55, received the imperial and state seals and replicas of two of the imperial treasures that symbolize the throne. By legend, the actual treasures -- a mirror, a sword and a crescent-shaped jewel -- trace back to the Shinto sun goddess Amaterasu. The government chose a name for Emperor Akihito's reign: Heisei, the achievement of complete peace on earth and in the heavens...
Like the universe, Petricone's classroom is a study in controlled chaos. "Are the Pleiades part of Taurus?" Franco Mastantuono asks no one in particular. Classmate Lisa David explains the difference between a crescent and a gibbous moon -- a waxing gibbous, at that. Barry Lyons solves the mystery of the moon's phases for a visitor by drawing an impromptu diagram. "What was the moon last night?" Petricone bellows. "A waxing crescent," Karyn Woodbury shoots back as she assembles her celestial sphere. "What about tonight?" Petricone pushes. "A first quarter," pipes another voice...
Nowhere are the consequences of unchecked industrialization more obvious than in Siberia's Lake Baikal basin. Nearly 30 years ago, Minlesbumprom (the Ministry of Timber, Pulp and Paper, and Wood Processing Industry) erected the Baikalsh pulp factory on the shores of this majestic body of crystal-clear water. The crescent-shaped lake holds 80% of the country's fresh water and 20% of the world's supply. Three-fourths of the lake's 2,500 fish and plant species, including the Baikal nerpa, a fresh-water seal, are unknown anywhere else in the world...