Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Actor Rod Steiger, 55, going from the Hasidic rabbi in The Chosen to Benito Mussolini in Lion of the Desert demanded a few changes. First, the Yiddish inflection was traded for an Italian accent. No problem there, since Steiger had played Pope John XXIII in And There Came a Man (1968) and, for that matter, the title role in Mussolini, the Last Act (1974). Next, the full, rabbinical beard had to go. Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup...
...bone structure that might have made it great. She mugged cheerfully in a not very successful George Burns comedy, Just You and Me, Kid. (She says she wants to do comedy, but her mother, less sure, would prefer she stay with pretty pictures.) She was ridiculous in the idiotic desert island saga Blue Lagoon, possibly because she felt ridiculous; she did a lot of her acting while walking in a trench cut in the sand so that Co-Star Chris Atkins, 18, could appear to be taller than...
...East, particularly the Camp David peace accords. It continues to help Polisario guerrillas in their fight against Morocco to carve out an independent state in the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara. The U.S., meanwhile, is quietly backing Morocco to the point of shipping arms for use in the desert...
...uncontrollable, instantaneous vibration" that struck Belgian Artist Jean Verame, 44, in the Sinai Desert. The Sinai's relief is crazy," he says, "its density is fabulous." He simply had to paint it. But not on canvas. The artist's plan was to decorate the desert -specifically, the 5-sq.-mi. Plateau of Hallaoui-with patterns and fields of cobalt blue paint. "Blue," he explains, "because this color does not exist on the earth's surface." Despite impressive credentials -Verame had already festooned a dried riverbed in France and a mile of the Corsican coast-it took...
Washington is one major citv in the nation where a night-blooming cowboy has no place to hang his ten-gallon. The desert will be greened in March when Mike O'Harro, 41, who owns two of the capital's most popular discos plans to open a C & W establishment in Georgetown. The venture will be aimed at what O'Harro calls "Government superchic, not rednecks." While conservative Washingtonians are more attuned to Blue Moon than bluegrass, O'Harro is confident that his Saddletramp saloon will be a boomer. As Ronald Reagan's rancheros take...