Word: nile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Alan Moorehead, 73, Australian-born author of some 20 historical books, most notably The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962), bestselling, detailed accounts of the exploration of the river's two parts that read like carefully crafted adventure novels; of a stroke; in London...
...Exotic Nile," the narrator is hoodwinked by his landlord into taking his wife's younger sister out to dinner because "She's young, but she's not that young, and she likes you." "[Did] You get him?" the girl asks her brother on reappearing and they all pile into her convertible, where she proceeds to climb all over the narrator...
Marquand, a Welshman who had years of experience directing primarily for British television (The Search for the Nile), campaigned for the job and guarded Lucas' creation zealously. Says he: "It is as if Lucas were a famous composer who said to me, 'Here's a 120-piece orchestra. Here's my music. I'd like you to conduct.' " In this maestro's view, Kershner had carelessly strayed from the true faith. Marquand was disturbed to detect that in Empire Artoo-Detoo was occasionally painted with black squares instead of his customary blue, and that Darth Vader sometimes wielded his light...
...Menenhetet, a peasant who rises to the post of First Charioteer in the reign of Ramses II and succeeds in getting reincarnated three or four times--ancient Egypt is a land of many weird rites and customs, filled with magic, telepathy and violence. Menenhetet relates his odyssey from a Nile village to the Pharaoh's chariot in the glorious battle against the Hittites at Kadesh to the beds of the royal harem and the Queen from beyond the grave. He also prefaces the tale with a recasting of a number of stories from Egyptian mythology, a section which...
...seasons were once the central organizing principle of things. Mankind learned the mysteries, even the tragedies, of limited duration. All of Egyptian civilization coalesced around the annual flooding of the Nile. In the developed countries now, the internal variations of the year begin to have a merely recreational or sentimental interest. They tend to be, at best, decorative and, at worst, inconvenient. It is true that in Minnesota, winter remains a convicted killer. It is also true that things occur in a Southern spring, in north Alabama or Tennessee or the Shenandoah Valley, that go beyond the merely picturesque...