Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wave upon wave, the British have been hitting Florida's beaches ever since. An estimated 200,000 vacationers from the United Kingdom will have visited Miami Beach on daily flights by year's end, adding some $100 million to the economy of that fabled strip. They are lured to the U.S. by reasonable hotel rates and charter packages and Freddie Laker's Skytrain jet service. Inflation back home and the pound sterling's strong exchange rate against the dollar make Miami a splendid buy. According to the U.S. Travel Service, 1.25 million British tourists will visit...
...patsies of some importing nations. Saudi Arabia is now using its muscle to try to buy U.S. offensive weaponry for its F-15 fighters. Denmark last month signed a contract for 20,000 bbl. of oil per day that forbids Danes to take any action that would "bring the kingdom of Saudi Arabia or any of its departments into disrepute." This could mean a Saudi veto power over something like showing the controversial film Death of a Princess, or even over Danish foreign policy...
...Bayadére, a much beloved work in the Soviet Union, is virtually unknown here, except for a section called "Kingdom of the Shades," which is a distillation of Marius Petipa's pure classicism. The film The Turning Point made beautiful use of its opening sequence, in which the corps de ballet slowly descends a ramp, all the dancers doing the same graceful movement, based on an arabesque, so that the audience sees it from every angle and at the same time as a single image. The stage becomes a vision of harmony, symmetry and peace...
...opening night the production glowed. The corps de ballet - more the heroine than either Nikiya or Gamzatti- danced the "Kingdom of the Shades" scene with technical purity and a moving, almost votive, concentration...
...angry blasts from top Congressmen and some of PBS'S biggest corporate backers, as well as much top-level squirming in the State Department. The cause: a sharply negative review from the Saudi Arabian government, which protested that the show presented a "completely false" picture of the desert kingdom and warned that it could "undermine the internationally significant relations" between the U.S. and its largest oil supplier...