Word: hoists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zayed of Abu Dhabi, President of the United Arab Emirates, has "a palace or two" in Pakistan, where he hunts for two months every year, and London digs with four-figure faucets designed by Godfrey Bonsack of May fair. Then there is the ruler of Dubai, who likes to hoist up his skirts-all the way-and then see which courtier will be the first to mention the royal flash. Linda of Arabia deals in crashing generalities. "Arabs are hypochondriacs," she offers en passant. Bahrain is "tidy," Qatar is dull and Kuwait is full of trendy boutiques but still very...
...chandeliers descend glowing white, gold and silver from the ceiling. Lowered past the grey arches of the boxes, they throw black shadows upwards. Below, dark figures in cocked hats wait, holding huge semicircular fans of metal. Waving these, they fan out the chandeliers. When the hall is darkened, they hoist the fans over their shoulders and march out, footsteps echoing rhythmically. The whole scene is the elaborate artifice of a long dead time and place, but the patterns, colors and shapes in which it is realized are those of abstract art; the movements are modern dance...
Intramural football is not a glory sport--the largest crowd of the afternoon was watching construction workers hoist a girder at Harvard's uncompleted new sports complex--but players remain enthusiastic...
...everything aboard the ship is archaic: on windless days, the steel-hulled Eagle, built in 1936, vibrates with the hum of her 728-h.p. diesel engine. Power winches, not able-bodied seamen, crank the windlass to hoist anchor. In the communications shack, the latest electronic gear helps plot the ship's position. On the foremast, a slowly rotating radar scanner keeps an electronic...
...with elevators to carry wheelchair users to both the ticket-buying and train levels; train doors are wide enough for two wheelchairs to enter abreast. Washington's new subway system has followed suit. In Atlanta, Milwaukee and Sacramento, public buses are being fitted out with special lifts to hoist wheelchairs up from the sidewalk. (Champaign, Ill., buses have been so equipped for two decades.) In Sacramento and Palo Alto, ramps have been built into curbs at virtually all commercial intersections. Hilton and Sheraton hotel chains are setting aside special rooms in their new buildings for the disabled; Holiday Inns...