Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hashimite kingdoms. The three who had their heads together in Amman were thoroughly used to working the British way. There was little about the dapper, languid Abdul Illah (who likes Bond Street clothes, flowers in his buttonhole and cocker spaniels) to show that he was the son of a desert king, Ali of the Hejaz, who had been pushed from his throne,in 1925 by Arabia's flowerless, buttonless Ibn Saud...
...episodic nature of the narrative is admitted, each individual sequence has independent unity of pace. The coronation of young Ivan, the sacking of Tartar Kazan, a deathbed scene which ably reproduces the oriental mysticism of medieval Russian Christianity, and the loneliness of Ivan's old age as his princes desert to the jackals baying around his borders--all these make striking individual images. Unfortunately, they are strung together in ponderous disunity and confusion...
...Ernst lives in Arizona with fellow surrealist Dorothea Tanning-his fourth wife-looking at the desert to get ideas for painting the sea. Like Lewis Carroll's Father William, Ernst has a limited stock of answers for those who question his strange ways. He feels sure he could never abandon his witch-doctor's approach to painting even if he wanted to. "One always meets one's self again," he says. "Evolution in art does not go straight; it goes in circles. I have seen this in my own work...
...internationalists, they were well aware of the political implications. By making the oil available to all the world (Russia would be able to buy as cheaply as anyone else), they would do their part to clear the political air. By bringing the tangible benefits of free enterprise to the desert lands, where starvation and disease are as ever-present as heat, they would make friends and influence people where the U.S. sorely needed friends. As the London Economist summed up: "They should be offered the resources of Western technique in making their deserts once more blossom like the rose. Western...
Although the sale ended Louis B. Mayer's big day as a racehorse owner, he was not through with horses. On a 504-acre ranch at the edge of the Mojave Desert, he still has a splendiferous breeding farm, with 15 different kinds of grass, a resident veterinarian, and everything but gold-handled pitchforks. There he keeps 74 of the finest brood mares in the land, whose offspring he will raise and sell each season as yearlings. Breeding, says L.B. now, is the side of the horse industry that is really sporting...