Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bahamas a year ago. (A hit in Fleet Street lingo is a good story, and a smudge is a photo.) Armed with jungle gear and survey maps, Whitaker and Photographer Kenny Lennox entered the jungle at 5:55 one morning, just before sunup. They were on a patch of land opposite the beach where Charles and Diana were staying. Says Whitaker: "We crawled, carrying a lens the size of a bloody howitzer for a solid hour and a half. By 7:50 a.m. we were in position, a half-mile across the water from the beach. Finally Diana appeared...
...nation of primitive farms into the Socialist version of agribusiness. At the end of World War II fewer than 2% of agricultural plots were larger than 50 acres; by 1970 the average collective or state farm covered more than 10,000 acres. Bulgaria is more than just a vegetable patch: it is the world's second largest exporter of cigarettes, with most of its Shipkas and Stewardesses going to the Soviet Union, and it provides nearly half the world's rose attar, an ingredient in perfumes...
...Hunding's chilly glass-paned palace, is gained in unorthodox but expressive detail that may be overlooked in the theater. In Wotan's sorrowfully reflective second-act monologue in Die Walküre, Bass-Baritone Donald McIntyre stands before a full-length mirror; tearing off the patch that covers his lost eye, Wotan searches for his soul and finds only an emptiness that foreshadows the twilight of the gods. For all its mythic dimensions, the Ring is basically a family tragedy, just the thing for the intimacy of the small screen. Conductor Pierre Boulez presides over a transparent...
...days on end, the financial world waited in suspense as bankers tried to patch together the two rescue packages. In the case of Mexico, 13 leading U.S., Japanese, British and West German bankers worked around the clock for nearly two weeks in the 29th-floor dining room of Citicorp headquarters in New York City to keep the country from defaulting. "It was handled like a money-raising telethon," one observer recounted later. Just the process of sending out the 27-page rescheduling proposal to some 1,400 banks involved in Mexico's loans gobbled up 600 hours of telex...
...Soviet hints and American guesses came along just as the Reagan Administration was trying to patch up its bruised image in Western Europe. During the past year, the transatlantic dialogue has deteriorated into a shouting match over high U.S. interest rates, East-West trade and European subsidies for farm products. Thus, in his visits to Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, Paris, Madrid and London, Shultz made a special effort to ease West European fears that the Reagan Administration had little interest in fostering international economic and monetary cooperation...