Word: desert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from 1932 crafted more than 60 rousing adventures, big-sky westerns and film noir mysteries that starred some of the screen's greatest names, including Gary Cooper (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, 1935), James Stewart (Call Northside 777, 1948), Tyrone Power (The Black Rose, 1950), James Mason (The Desert Fox, 1951) and John Wayne (True Grit, 1969); in Los Angeles...
...Saudi Arabia's King Fahd paid a five-day state visit to Washington, the first by a monarch from the Desert Kingdom in 14 years. His principal message: the U.S. has a responsibility to use its influence in an effort aimed at achieving peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors...
Willie, played by John Furie who looks like a slurp personified, is utterly self-absorbed. Saturated in American comforts (like TV dinners: "this is the way we cat in America. I got my meat, I got my potatoes, I got my vegetable and my desert. And I don't even gotta do the dishes.") Barely fighting the law of inertia, he always seems earnestly preoccupied with doing absolutely nothing. Eddie, Willie's sidekick, is defined by his lack of a personality. He capitulates to whomever speaks the loudest (usually gravel-voiced Willie) and even looks like a watercolor version...
...Nicholas Lemann in a penetrating article about Weinberger in the Atlantic, he felt no bitterness "toward the culture of the Eastern liberal Establishment. Weinberger loved that world and considered himself a part of it." The Weinbergers have since sold their California home and purchased one on Maine's Mount Desert Island, a bastion of old-line Yankees. Daughter Arlin, a | utility employee, is a Californian; Son Cap Jr., a public relations executive who was once president of the Operation Match computer dating service, lives in Washington...
...peaceful day in Botswana's Kalahari desert, where the Bushmen live, a Coca-Cola bottle fell from the sky. It must, they thought, be a gift from the gods. But this glass icon brought with it the compulsions of civilization: greed, jealousy, rancor. So the family patriarch determined to take the bottle to the end of the world and drop it off. On his journey he saw the strangest things: beasts with round legs (Jeeps), and a female with strange skins on her back (the village schoolteacher), and a squad of shiftless African guerrillas. The gods must be crazy...