Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grand object of travelling," said Samuel Johnson, "is to see the shores of the Mediterranean." The maxim had a special force among artists from the early 1900s to the eve of World War II. It applied to one particular shore: the Cote d'Azur, that strip of Provence that runs from Nice to Hyeres. If ever a littoral was changed from a place to an idea by the efforts of painters, this one was it. Paul Cezanne, a Provencal rooted in the limestone and red clay of his native Aix, had made backcountry Provence around Mont Ste.-Victoire...
...work of Arquitectonica Alumni Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is ferociously intelligent, as well as the most neoclassical of the lot. The couple practice and build mainly in South Florida, so it is fitting that they are attracted to Mediterranean forms. Theirs is a swaggering, hard-edged classicism on the cheap. Out of stucco they make neo-Roman villas: stark, complicated buildings that recall the Viennese Adolf Loos and do not suffer in the comparison...
...Such items will be sent to foreign "front firms," which will launder shipments, principally by repacking, relabeling and attaching false certificates of origin. The goods will then be transported to buyers as non- South African products. A lot of South African wine shipments, for example, may soon be carrying Mediterranean markings. Government officials are openly advising South African businessmen on how to get around sanctions. Says Kent Durr, Deputy Minister of Finance and Trade and Industries: "We will remain reliable and consistent suppliers of goods...
Witnesses said four jets, Phantoms and Israeli-built Kfirs, flew in from the Mediterranean and made three bomb and rocket runs on the guerrilla positions starting...
...that a scheduled trip to Chad by a U.S. general "provides an opportunity for disinformation to reach Gaddafi that the U.S. and France are developing contingency plans for a 'Chad Option.' " Finally, the Journal claimed that the "Sea Wind" exercises, long-planned U.S.-Egyptian maneuvers under way in the Mediterranean at the time of its Aug. 25 story, "are intended to keep the Libyans off balance and to assemble forces in case a quick, punishing strike at Libya is needed." A White House memo to CIA Director William Casey underlined the point. It suggested that "overt (military) operations will also...