Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...villagers in Ramparts of Clay, yesterday, today and tomorrow are one. The muezzin's chant, the shepherd's flock, the inexorable rhythms of the desert-all seem to have been delivered whole from the verses of the Koran. In Director Jean-Louis Bertucelli's first feature, that isolation has the dimension of tragedy. Though France has granted Tunisia her independence and social change has been promised, the citizenry are still degraded, the colonial mind is still at work...
Pompidou's visit to francophone Africa is the first by a French President since Charles de Gaulle's historic preindependence tour in 1959. It will take him from the tent encampments of Nouakchott to the modern towers of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, from the arid desert of Mauritania to the deep green rain forests of Cameroun, from the sight of heavily clad Berber women in the Sahara to bare-breasted girls in Yacunde. Scrupulously impartial, he and his entourage of 160-including Wife Claude, cool in summer outfits by Chanel, Cardin and Lanvin despite the oppressive heat...
...much as $10 billion would be needed in the next decade to make birth control easily accessible to the entire Third World population. Laments Villot: "It is troubling to see funds channeled into family planning campaigns more easily than into other enterprises; for example, certain projects for fertilization of desert zones...
...what does a manager do when, in the midst of a good-natured victory celebration in a New York hotel, a mini-Sahara desert is formed on the tenth floor when a spirited player turned self-styled sheik inverts a few cement cigarette urns? It's not that easy to dispose of a beach in a hall-way without rasing a few eyebrows...
...find anywhere," commented the University of Bristol's Geoffrey Eglinton, one of 79 foreign participants at the conference. Nor did anyone find any trace of water-past or present; this prompted one scientist to comment that the moon was a million times as dry as the Gobi Desert...