Word: oriental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Right now I'm trying to orient myself to what's going on," said Harry A. Dunlevy, a dental student and graduate of Brown University...
...each Friday and Sun day. The northbound V.S.O.E. leaves Venice's Santa Lucia Station at 5:25 p.m. on Saturday and Wednesday. The English segment of the train, which does not cross the channel, consists of seven chocolate-and-cream cars that were built for the old Orient Express. They have comfortable English names like Audrey and Agatha (not for Miss Christie, who wrote Murder on the Orient Express) or else daunting classical appellations like Perseus and Phoenix. Some English passengers are greeted by name at Victoria by brown-liveried Brian Hannaford, an oldtime Pullman chief steward...
...schoolmaster at Eton. Each car had to be equipped with modern wiring, insulation, safety glass, fireproofing and brakes. Much of the marquetry and upholstery had to be remade, some of it to the original specifications, discovered, miraculously, at a cabinetmaker's in Chelmsford, England. Some 250 Orient Express artifacts, from bud vases to rose silk-shaded lamps, were recreated...
...train once went to Istanbul, but there is no longer enough demand for that service. As it is, the v.s.O.E. is booked solidly through October, and the company has laid on a third weekly trip from London to Venice. On Sept. 1, according to Sherwood, the Orient Express will be in the black. If occupancy continues at the present rate of 80%, he expects the company's investment to be repaid within four years. In its first month or so, Sherwood concedes, he received "a lot of complaints." They ranged from U.S. tourists' grumbling about the sweetbreads...
...most luxurious. It was Tony Bloom who provided the only honest-to-Bond suspense on one trip: he found $17,000 in a dirty roll of bills next to the piano. The money was claimed, an official reported, by "a Frenchman." Mystery and intrigue are not dead on the Orient Express...