Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campus, in the Soviets' latest enterprise, is the Horn of Africa, the stretch of real estate that is strategically placed along the Red Sea routes vital to Arab oil trade (see map). There the Soviets are simultaneously cultivating a new interest-Ethiopia-while trying to remain on good terms with an old friend -Somalia. Since the two African countries dislike one another intensely, the Soviet effort is delicate work...
...they are regarded to be at least 33.75 billion bbl.-and the figure is climbing. Proven oil reserves in Mexico and the waters off its coast have been revised from 7 billion bbl. to about 11 billion bbl. Still, the established fields remain the citadels of proven resources (see map): the Middle East (with 368 billion bbl.), followed by the Soviet Union (78 billion bbl.), Africa (61 billion bbl.) and the U.S. (31 billion bbl.). The CIA'S forecast of shortages assumed that the Soviet Union, now an oil exporter, and its client states in Eastern Europe would become...
...work by the same choreographer every few months, and to note what impressions remain the same, leaving imprints of the artist's style. This weekend at MIT local choreographer Beth Soll presented "Map," and as in "Clearfield," her piece performed earlier this spring, she was cavorting off to the side of the action like some imperious imp. But a performing persona is only one aspect of style; more interesting to see is how Soll's choreography transcends this way of moving...
Hofstetter smeared his tidy creation ever so slightly with two motifs also used by Soll: vaguely evocative hand gestures passing over eyes or mouth, and people carrying one another's weight. Soll welds the two into the most vivid image of last year's "Safari" and this season's "Map": a human chain, people burdened with one another as with heavy loads or corpses, journeying slowly through space. The structure of "Map" has this same open and nothing quality, small-scale events against a large group moving as a whole, detail against a drifting mass. I like...
...career twelve years ago, Anderson was working as an auto salesman in Van Nuys. The hustling discomfited him, and when he was invited to manage Rock Hill in the Western Carolinas League, "he accepted," says his wife Carol, "before we'd even looked up Rock Hill on the map...