Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capitals with their theaters, their art, their museums," he says. "But some of my happiest travel experiences have been in the provinces of England, France, Portugal, Italy. I discovered many of those places while serving in the Merchant Marine during World War II. I was on North Atlantic and Mediterranean runs, among others, and there were always opportunities to get away into the countryside, where people welcomed me. Even in wartime, they ate and drank well." Demarest has been back to Europe almost every year in the past three decades. But he has also enjoyed traveling to and writing...
...auspicious words, the Madrid exercise was not quite over. The agreement must be accepted by representatives of all 35 conference participants. The last obstacle to complete accord was the island republic of Malta, which insisted that all 35 conference members accept the idea of a future meeting on Mediterranean security. Even when that hurdle is cleared, the Madrid agreements must be endorsed by the foreign ministers of all the participants. That ritual, which may not take place until September, may provide the opportunity for a meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...States was the barefoot girls in their summer dresses pedaling bicycles past the sea. In your jacket you carried a photograph of the soldier that had been you, a keepsake of the afternoon you sank your boots firmly in the sand that slopes into the Mediterranean that lies beside Beirut. In the photograph you looked older than the cliché-older than the hills. You would fetch the picture from your pocket if the leggy girls truly wanted to see. But the girls you wanted later-the telephone you needed...
...finally, as if for international symmetry's sake, an Israeli community, 90,000 strong, has sprung up since 1970. The new immigrants tend to be young professionals. Many are discouraged by Israel's erratic economy and mandatory military service, and attracted by L.A.'s mild Mediterranean climate and economic promise...
...that the Greeks have, terribly sorry, permanently lost then-marbles. During her tour of the museum, Mercouri admitted that the priceless sculptures were "very well kept. But on foreign earth." Did she really think Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would ever allow the marbles to leave Britain? Replied Mercouri with Mediterranean magnificence: "Why not? She's a woman...