Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ideology burns bright in the hearts of many of those occupiers, but the Cohens do not see their presence in Gilgal as a political statement. "Life is healthier here," says Ami, chunky and round faced, with a bush of dark curly hair. "In the city, we fought a war for money month after month," adds blond, Paris-born Chantal, a nursery school teacher. "This place is exciting. We're building, and we feel equal...
...former Manhattan model joined the Office of Strategic Services and was posted to Madrid in 1944, where she decoded messages at the American Oil Mission. The OSS called her Tiger. Her orders: to flush out Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's special agent in the Spanish capital. The dark, lissome beauty moved easily in international society. Her front line was frequently a receiving line or a table at Horcher's, a restaurant transplanted from Berlin...
...will travel every morning by covered motor launch across the Venetian lagoon from the plush Hotel Cipriani, where he will stay, to the tiny Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, situated directly across from the famous Piazza San Marco. The formal summit talks will take place in the bay-windowed, dark-paneled library of a 17th century Benedictine monastery on the miniature island. Security will be so tight that the traditional photograph of the summit leaders will be taken in a monastery courtyard, rather than at the lagoon's edge. The summiteers will eat well, as in the past, though...
Previous historians have tended to place most of the blame on the CIA's deputy director for planning, Richard Bissell. His penchant for secrecy, they say, led him to keep the agency's intelligence division and other military analysts pretty much in the dark, thus resulting in a poor assessment of the risks involved. Indeed, a still secret case study prepared for the Tower commission, one of a series that sought to compare previous covert activities with the Iran-contra affair, also attributes the Bay of Pigs failure to excessive secrecy of CIA planners and lack of adequate review...
...brown stubble, rocks and iced-up puddles, all under a white sky) looks so like Siberia. To gauge how the roots of his imagination go, one need only compare his painting of the nude Helga with a black ribbon round her neck, face averted, floating in a soup of dark shadow, with the work on which it is based: Manet's Olympia. There, one has all the contrast between what is deep and what is genteel, between brazen, ironic intelligence and mere sensibility, between the harsh confrontational skills of a great talent and the tepid virtuosity of a popular...