Word: ravenal
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Begin your journey at the Raven Site Ruin, one of the few archaeological digs where you don't have to be an archaeologist to dig in. Located near Springerville (about four hours east of Phoenix), the prehistoric site was a pottery-manufacturing center occupied by the Anasazi and Mogollon Indians until it was abandoned some 600 years ago. These days the site offers hands-on excavation programs that last from one day to one week (children must be at least nine years of age). Mornings are spent digging with trained archaeologists; afternoons include hikes to nearby petroglyphs (ancient rock drawings...
Scheduled to air within the next year or so: TV-movie versions of Moby Dick and David Copperfield for the USA and Turner networks respectively, not to mention a sweeping Crime and Punishment mini-series for NBC. Meanwhile, Halmi is also working to bring versions of Animal Farm, The Raven and Dante's Inferno to the small screen...
DIED. BO WIDERBERG, 66, Swedish writer-director of trenchant films about young outsiders; of undisclosed causes; in Angelholm, Sweden. From his smart, sensitive Raven's End (1963) to the Lolita-in-reverse All Things Fair (1995), Widerberg sympathized with kids who valiantly and vainly fought the system. His 1967 hit Elvira Madigan, a lusciously limned story of love on the run, put Piano Concerto No. 21 on the charts. Mozart never sounded so sexy as when he underscored the doomed nuzzling of Pia Degermark and Thommy Berggren...
...late Alger Hiss. More than 2,000 entries deal with the history of spying, the complexities of cryptography and trade jargon (dry clean: to determine whether one is under surveillance; pianist: a clandestine radio operator; swallow: Russian term for a female agent assigned to seduce a target; raven: the male counterpart of a swallow). Beyond these terms are detailed entries about notable spies of yesteryear (Daniel Defoe, Christopher Marlowe), as well as those of more recent vintage (Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Whittaker Chambers, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Jonathan Pollard...
...match the season, why shouldn't it match the situation as well? People waiting for a Delta flight may long for some existential couplet like, "Why is it I always feel desperately lonely/When agents announce, 'This is preboarding only'?" Motorists waiting in the vehicle-inspection line who find The Raven enjoyable enough around Halloween may actually prefer a poem such as Contemplations on the Expatriate Life...