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...movie version of James Michener's Caravans. Jennifer, 29, won acclaim for her role as a grieving but indulgent young war widow in Summer of '42. This time she plays an adventurous American woman who follows a desert caravan and wins the grudging respect of a nomad chieftain (Anthony Quinn). Caravan is being filmed in Iran, and Jennifer sometimes longs for the comforts of home. "It's terribly hot," she says. "Your eyes get red, the winds whip sand all over you-and there is no dry cleaner near...
...major barrier to reaching these alumni is simply locating them, Clifton said. Graduates in their 20s and 30s are continually on the move and "it's like trying to find an Arab nomad...
...Nomad Independence. Spain's sole remaining colony, the Spanish Sahara, has also been an increasing source of trouble for the regime. During the past five years, Madrid has invested $400 million in developing the colony's rich phosphate deposits. Now Spain is planning to abandon the whole area. The reason: threats by neighboring Arab states to liberate all or part of the sparsely populated (60,000 nomads), mineral-rich region. Pressure on Madrid intensified last month when ten Spanish soldiers based in the Sahara disappeared. Their fate remains unknown. It has also been reported that Moroccan troops fired...
Trained from childhood to fight and hunt, a steppes nomad was accustomed to using his eyes to a degree unimaginable among modern city dwellers. Every twitch of a deer's alarmed head, every gathering of muscle, gust of wind or sprouting of vegetation could be a clue in the work of survival. So it is not surprising that Scythian art?both the objects they made for themselves in the 7th-6th centuries B.C., and the ones they later had made for them by Greek metalsmiths?was supremely visual: accurate observation combined with an amazing clarity of design. The panther hammered...
...addition, investigations into the nature of revolutions indicate that Jencks is totally mistaken in attributing the existence of revolutions to educated refugees from the lower classes. Rather, it seems that the major leaders of past revolutions have been what Max Nomad, a student of revolutions, called "declasse intellectuals"--members of the upper class who have defected. In Crane Brinton's "Anatomy of Revolution"--a study of England's "Glorious Revolution," America's War of Independence, the French Revolution, and the Russian Revolution--he found in all cases that "an enzyme without which the revolution would have been impossible...