Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Margaret Key Biggs Port St. Joseph...
...work force of 12 million, 5 million are unemployed; industry, meanwhile, is running at only 40% capacity. The scars from the war with Iraq are apparent on every front: some 3,400 factories in the four front-line provinces have been destroyed or extensively damaged; Iran's largest port, Khorramshahr, has been incapacitated; the disruption of irrigation and the flight of farmers in war zones have caused $ 1 billion worth of cattle to perish. Yet the regime seems scarcely interested in attending to such problems. For the fiscal year ending in March 1983, the Islamic Revolution Records, ostensibly...
...plunge into Morley's peculiar oeuvre with a painting that presents his dislocations at full stretch: Age of Catastrophe, 1976. It shows an accident that never happened. A liner on the Atlantic run is warping out of port. Its hull is literally "warped," the perspective skewed and twisty. An airliner seems to have crashed on it, an old Pan Am Constellation of the sort that went out of service decades ago. But the scale is all wrong: the plane is too big for the boat, and it looks more like an effigy stuck to the painting. In fact, Morley...
...remember some people throwing perfumed rice at the feet of the Israelis when they arrived in 1982," says a businessman in the Lebanese port city of Sidon. "Now the same people are throwing bombs...
They also, as the newly arrived exile discovered, tend to a certain confusion about other lands. The tasty title track of his second album, Mariel, summons memories of the Cuban port from which the boat people sailed in 1980. D'Rivera, already fatigued with explaining this and with insisting that "all the Marielitos are not so bad," has taken recently to saying that the song is about the leading lady of Star...