Word: eyeful
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...have recently published books. One is Senior Editor Christopher Porterfield, a close friend of Dick Cavett's since college days and a writer and producer of many of his TV shows. Porterfield collaborated with Cavett on the entertainer's latest volume of sharply observed portraits and reminiscences, Eye on Cavett. "I was actually there when many of the events took place," says Porterfield. "I even carry some of the same scars." Published by Arbor House, the work is the second joint effort by Porterfield and Cavett; the first, Cavett, was a bestseller...
...just about 1 a.m. (Japan Standard Time) on Sept. 1 when Korean Air Lines (KAL) Flight 007, cruising southwestward from Anchorage over the Bering Sea in the early-morning darkness, came under the watchful eye of Soviet radar. For the next 2½ hr. the blip moved into and out of Soviet airspace. When it crossed over the eastern border of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Soviets scrambled four MiG-23s and Su-15s from the Petropavlovsk airbase on Kamchatka to search for the intruder. Just after 3 a.m., over the Soviet island of Sakhalin, where another six interceptors had given...
...impressive program that Ford selected for backing takes place under the vaulted gold arches of a former U.S. Mint building where the Community College of Philadelphia holds classes. Philosophy Professor Martin Spear and Sociology Professor Dennis McGrath caught the foundation's eye with an honors program aimed at the school's poor and minority students. Explains Spear: "We had to create a structure, a kind of intellectual community of students who would come to believe that we are doing something important." Seminars focus for a time on a particular century: its literature, its politics, its social movements...
...great bureaucracy fairy cried, "Not so fast. You can't have a traffic entry just like that." And he added with an evil twinkle in his eye. "You must have a gatehouse--for a guard to sit." And so they started to work on a gatehouse...
Still, the experience managed to provide one eye-opener. A French magazine flew me to Lebanon to shoot a fashion layout. A kindly, graying interpreter named Lulla welcomed us to Beirut at our hotel, one of the intact few. The nearby Holiday Inn, in contrast, had been gutted, sandbagged and turned into a multi-level parking garage for combat vehicles. Lulla lived by herself in a spacious but dilapidated apartment in the center of the city. When I asked her about the small holes that riddled her blinds, she explained matter of factly that snipers were still active at night...