Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help shelter an estimated 15,000 homeless men and women. The weather was even more severe in other regions. The town of Mouthe, in the eastern Jura mountain area, was caught in a record -27 degrees, while the winegrowing Burgundy region in the southwest posted -7 degrees. The Mediterranean port of Marseilles was hit with heavy snow and winds of up to 60 m.p.h. In some areas heating oil ran out when delivery trucks were unable to get through because low-grade diesel fuel had frozen in their gas tanks...
This past Christmas Eve, Khashoggi entertained some 60 guests at his 5,000- acre spread on Spain's postcard Mediterranean coast. For the occasion, La Baraka (in Arabic, "the blessings of God") was transformed into a Moorish palace: gold chandeliers draped in white leaves and red streamers, the ceiling of the 50-ft.-high ballroom covered with shimmering silver and gold spangles like the fringes on a flapper's dress. That night, like a magnanimous feudal lord, Khashoggi, in a gray-and-black satin tuxedo, greeted his guests with kisses on both cheeks. Servants trooped into the ballroom carrying great...
...former Prime Minister was saddened by a controversy that erupted in the last year of his life. At issue was whether Macmillan, while serving as a British representative in the Central Mediterranean region immediately after World War II, had ordered more Soviet and Yugoslav refugees returned to their countries, where they faced imprisonment or even execution, than had been called for in the Yalta agreement. While Macmillan never fully explained his role in the affair, he took full responsibility for his actions...
...image of the paradisiacal Mediterranean that still haunts our imagination -- despite its present-day reality of myriad gridlocked campers frying in the sun at the tepid edge of a half-dead sea -- was created by these painters and their followers. Their relations with this place, or more properly their invention of it, gave modernism its one practical utopia of the senses, a bourgeois Eden whose roots wound back through a coastal peasant culture (still unhurt by tourism in the 1920s) to the Greco-Roman past. Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes...
...integration that had gone into his work from his fauve paintings of 1905-06 to The Moroccans of 1916, nothing he did thereafter would seem trivial to art historians. Yet such was not the case. Most accounts of Matisse's life treat his first 15 years on the Mediterranean (however much the public liked their results) as a slackening of his talent, almost a betrayal of its essence; he would not entirely recover, this version insists, until he began a new phase of abstraction in the early 1930s, one which would culminate 15 years later with the pure color silhouettes...