Word: maelstroms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effects of that horrific bulletin can plunge thousands of American lives into a maelstrom. Desperate ticket-counter pleas. Improvised sleeping arrangements. Long-distance calls to explain that you are in Wichita with no plausible hope of joining the family around the festive stuffed turkey...
Persian Nights shows why. Author Diane Johnson's sixth novel transports a handful of Americans into Iran during the summer of 1978. These remarkably ordinary visitors have no way of knowing they have jetted into a maelstrom, a seething revolution that will soon topple the Shah, rearrange the balances of power and terror in the Middle East and seriously frazzle two successive American presidencies. But in hindsight from 1987, when all of this is known, anyone who was in Iran then, even only in make-believe, can be made to seem interesting...
...problems, Aquino does not seem to be in any immediate danger. In the peculiar logic of Philippine politics, the recent maelstrom may even boost the President's standing in this week's constitutional balloting. "If she loses," said Taxi Driver Ramon Iglesias last week, "I'm afraid there will be a civil war." For that reason alone, Iglesias is voting...
...songs are more symphonic than pop, Glass explains. "There's really no rock in them." The program, which was performed in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, included a piece written for Dancer-Choreographer Twyla Tharp, and an orchestration of Edgar Allan Poe's A Descent into the Maelstrom. "It's almost like a vaudeville show," muses Glass. "People moving and blending. That's the thing about the '80s -- it's all about collaboration...
...center of last week's maelstrom was a shadowy figure whom few people had heard of until last week: Ivan Boesky. On Nov. 14 the Securities and Exchange Commission electrified the financial world with news that Boesky, 49, one of America's richest and savviest stock-market speculators, had been caught in an ongoing insider-trading probe. Boesky had agreed to pay $100 million in penalties, return profits and accept eventual banishment from professional stock trading for life for his alleged wrongdoings. He also faces a single, as yet unspecified, criminal charge, which could lead to a five-year prison...