Word: oriental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though he has no formal research plans Kiely will keep a journal of his experience. "I have always been interested in the Orient," he said. "My whole family and I are very much excited about this opportunity to go there...
...only refugee from peace and prosperity. A sleazy French dealer in arms and war photographs indicts all the journalists holed up in the atrociously modern hotel that lies in a shifting no-man's-land: "This our voyage en orient. But the Orient doesn't exist. It is a creation of the west. And all this--this is the fall of Western civilization." The guerillas all speak French or English; clad in olive drab fatigues, they play classical pieces on a Steinway ornamented with a machine gun. Many have spent time in Europe. The most repulsive character in the movie...
...cream was perfected in the U.S., as all honest chauvinists know, but it was not invented here. Nero liked to eat flavored ice, according to Paul Dickson's scholarly and amusing The Great American Ice Cream Book, and in the 13th century Marco Polo returned from the Orient with a recipe for some sort of frozen dessert with milk in it. Catherine de Medicis appears to have introduced sherbets and ices, possibly ice cream, to France in 1533, when she arrived there with her retinue to marry the future Henry II. Beethoven, during the mild winter of 1794, feared...
...Orient Handel, a store in San Francisco, accumulated a stock of Persian rugs worth $1.2 million to meet strong customer demand. But many of the rugs remain unsold. Says Manager Albert Neherayoff: "Three years ago we used to sell a minimum of $40,000 in rugs each month. That's gone down to $20,000 or $15,000 -or even less. I'm praying that business picks...
Most actors worry about what winds up on the cutting-room floor after a film has been shot. Albert Finney, 44 (Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express), got the worst over with first. For his role as Multi-millionaire Daddy Warbucks in the film Annie, directed by veteran John Huston, Finney had his sandy hair shorn, lock, shock and cowlick. Said he afterward: "I've heard that the first thing a woman notices about a man is his hair." Finney, who will get $1 million for five months of shooting, need not worry about such a hairbrained notion...