Word: perche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Covering Vance is quite a different task from following Kissinger. Talbott remembers how much Kissinger liked holding airborne seminars for reporters and taking them into his confidence. He even enjoyed arguing with correspondents. At other times, recalls Ogden, "Kissinger would come to the back of the plane, perch on your armrest, pick cocktail nuts off your tray and tell outrageous and fascinating stories about officials he dealt with-all off the record, of course...
...ahead of the ovations for a previous scene's show-stopper. Andrew Dorsey's lighting is extremely well-defined, further illuminating the depth of director Carpenter's compositions, and someone handles the moving spotlight very adeptly. Little flourishes spice the proceedings; when Diane Nabatoff mounts the stairs to a perch on the top deck while singing "I Get A Kick Out of You," the spotlight catches the side of the Dunster Dining Hall chandelier, casting its shadow on the piece of set below her. Intentional? Maybe, maybe not, but one thing is clear: the angles are on the side...
...into the DMZ under the watchful eyes of soldiers on both sides of the line in order to observe and photograph the monogamous cranes in their elaborate mating rituals, which include wing flapping, bows and leaps into the air. "The Americans get very nervous," explains Won, who makes his perch right on the Military Demarcation Line in the very middle of the DMZ. "They're afraid the North Koreans will try to capture...
...latest estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey, Soviet proven and estimated onshore reserves stand at an impressive 80 billion bbl. The main problem is that the most promising reserves are located in barren, inhospitable areas where drilling is extremely difficult. In the western Siberian fields, tall drilling rigs perch precariously on unstable peat that freezes rock hard in winter and heaves and shifts in summer...
ITHACA, N.Y.--For many years, Bob Blackman ruled the Ivy League from a little perch in Hanover New Hampshire...