Word: nile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history's best-known advertising campaigns and most recurrent dreams. For more than 20 years the Maidenform model said, "I dreamed I went shopping [or fought a bull, or barged down the Nile] in my Maidenform bra." The ads, featuring a winsome lady wearing nothing above the waist but a bra, appeared in more than 70 countries, starting in 1949, and helped propel the privately held company to the No. 2 spot in the intimate-apparel industry (1982 sales: $125 million...
Language might yet have made Ancient Evenings a page turner, and the novel does offer brief, poetic passages. The shimmer and heat of the Nile, the blaze of Egyptian architecture when it was new and radiant with epochal ambition, the perfume and soft light of a harem garden: all enjoy moments of intense realization. But such moods are continually broken by ludicrous sentences: "In either case, my Pharaoh's mind was now concerned with buttocks." Or: "Now, with the redolence of my nose, I watched and admired the delicacy with which the Pharaoh ate." Mailer's historical posing...
...THERE IS much more at stake here than hydroelectric plants on the Nile. The Soviets already have a reasonable hold on the loyalties of Syris and Iraq. Egypt, bordering strategically on the suex Conel, has always been considered a hey to the success of military operations in the region; the assurance even of Egyptian neutrality in the event of American intervention over control of the oilfields of the Gulf States would greatly control the Soviet high command. Now Mubarak wants to perform a dangerous balancing act between the two superpowers, accepting $2 billion in American aid last year and then...
...couple behaved like typical tourists, gliding down the Nile, clicking away at the Sphinx, even striking a matching pose in front of a pharaonic frieze at Luxor. Except, of course, that typical tourists do not have the Nile searched for explosives beforehand; neither do they lunch with Jehan Sadat, widow of Anwar, nor get together with President Hosni Mubarak. Visiting Egypt on a swing through the Middle East, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were reminded often of the 1978 Camp David accords. Strolling through a Cairo bazaar, he was greeted with shouts of "Welcome, Mr. Peace Man!" Mused Carter: "I could...
Base camp for the project's 60 European, 45 Pakistani and 1,000 Sudanese employees is a prefabricated village erected at the juncture of the Sobat and White Nile rivers. Jokingly referred to as "Sobat Club Med," it boasts an airstrip, swimming pool, hospital, club and a French school with 40 European children. Cheese and fruits are imported from France. Says Christian Coupechoux, the project director: "Sometimes we run out of beer and whisky, but we never run out of wine." Still, life is grim. Armed bandits, holdovers from the Sudan civil war of 1955-72, harass workers. Illness...