Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What's naked and runs across the desert? A. The Streak of Araby...
None of these movies approach the tense excellence of what may be the all-time best-of-breed: Director Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), in which Dennis Weaver plays a peaceable salesman hurrying to a meeting through rugged desert country and incurring the psychopathic rage of a truck driver by passing him on a hill. His desperate efforts to avoid murder by collision with a relentless foe, whose face neither he nor the audience ever glimpses, is an unforgettable exercise in the action-suspense category...
Ikingi Maryut is a small green retreat in the Western Desert outside Alexandria, where Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last April reached his fateful decision to go to war with Israel. There last week Sadat received Hedley Donovan and gave his first interview with a representative of a Western publication since the war. Wearing a gray turtleneck sweater, slacks and sports jacket, Sadat puffed his pipe and broke into confident laughter from time to time as he ranged widely over a number of topics. Among the questions and answers...
...long strips crisscrossing the desert veer from a straight line by only a few yards every mile. The accompanying triangles, rectangles and trapezoids are laid out with equal precision. In their midst are drawings of huge spiders, a giant nine-fingered monkey, birds, fish and reptiles, some of them so large they are recognizable only from the air. For decades these ancient patterns, spreading across 30 miles of Peru's desolate Nazca plain, have confounded archaeologists. Why were they so painstakingly etched out of the bleak mesa? Could they have been signals to the gods, or-as the current...
...drawings are at least 1,000 years old, the work of a sophisticated pre-Inca people who survived with the help of elaborate irrigation systems. To create their desert art, these early Peruvians removed strips of the topmost layer of stone, piece by piece, exposing the lighter-colored dirt underneath. They apparently made their precise markings without modern tools or surveying gear or even a high platform from which to view their progress...