Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ways of Seeing). An unorthodox Marxist, he now lives in a village in the French Alps (about which he wrote Pig Earth), but he roams far. This collection of essays, his 17th book in a productive quarter- century, includes Berger's impressions of Moscow, New York City, Strasbourg and Istanbul...
...close friend of mine killed himself by blowing his brains out." He describes Albrecht Durer's view of the Apocalypse as the day when "the sun would go out, and the heavens would be rolled up and put away like a manuscript." He reports that the mosques of Istanbul are "the colour of ripe honeydew melons." He encapsulates a special quality in Bonnard's art by calling it "an art about cultivating one's own garden...
...Chief Boatswain's Mate John Davidson from Malden, Mass., didn't have to come out of retirement to be selected. He had first sailed on the Missouri as a seaman first class in 1946 when she carried the body of the wartime Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. back to Istanbul to be buried. Since then he's seen ports of call from Australia to Italy and been tattooed by the best in Norfolk, Va., Hong Kong, Yokohama and Pearl Harbor. With just over 40 years in service, Davidson isn't padding his pension. He can't improve...
...negotiators were forced to carry out their mission from Istanbul, Turkey. And after countless meetings with United Nations officials, representatives of Iranian factions, and Middle Eastern diplomats with Iranian contacts, Miller secured the release of twelve embassy hostages...
...trial of 48 members of the Turkish Peace Association. The defendants, most of whom are writers, have been on trial for 18 months and face prison terms of from five to 15 years. The experience left the playwrights worn and wary. "We already had a very hard time in Istanbul," Pinter told one group of reporters in Ankara, "and we don't want to talk." Back in Connecticut last week, Miller observed of the Turkish press: "We couldn't find an editor who wouldn't say that he couldn't tell the whole truth." Miller and Pinter will have...