Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal problem facing Kissinger is that the Golan Heights, the geopolitical area he has to work with this time, is smaller and more difficult to sort out than the Sinai desert of Egypt. No armies are trapped there to add urgency to negotiations; rather, there are civilian settlers on both sides, which makes discussions more complicated. Both nations, moreover, have made seemingly irreconcilable demands. Syria insists that Israel, as a first step, return all of the 154-sq.-mi. "bulge" that it captured in the October war along with portions of Syrian territory captured in 1967, including Quneitra, the principal...
...Haggard tends to drop out of sight for days at a stretch, then calmly reappear. Aloof from all but a few friends, who predate his fame, and indifferent to publicity, Haggard would rather be jamming all night at J.D.'s, a small club in Ridgecrest in the Mojave Desert. Or gambling in Reno, where he dropped $80,000 two weeks ago. Or else engaged in his unending hunt for the perfect fishing hole...
...inevitably as the dream factories made Hollywood an economic empire, they made it a moral desert. The drug they advertized, then, the Hollywood magic formula, could be dangerous--as dangerous as any dream believed too much, even as dangerous as the course of Gatsby's dream. Then in Hollywood Gatsby's tragedy could be re-enacted...
Belle de Jour. The roughly chronological Bunuel series at the Harvard-Epworth Church must be ending soon, because this is a recent one. I've never seen it, but it comes right after a good Bunuel (Simon of the Desert) and right before a great one (Tristana), which is credentials...
...dead last year; some people were so weakened that when a rainstorm struck Dese, the capital of Welo, they drowned in a couple of inches of water, unable to raise their heads from the gutter. Now the drought is expanding into other areas. In Harar province's Danakil Desert, the nomadic tribesmen are in danger of dying out as a race. Carcasses of their cattle, sheep, goats and camels litter the desert; the surviving animals are so scrawny that cows, once worth $60 in the marketplace, now go for $3. "Everywhere there are Danakil graves," cabled Griggs, "small mounds...