Word: rendezvouses
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ABOUT HALF-WAY through Arthur Kopit's nuclear war comedy End of the World with Symposium to Follow the protagonist, who has been commissioned to research and write a play about nuclear war, meets a Pentagon general off-the-record at a foggy rendezvous. The official confesses that he has...
The 56-member all-male chorus has been invited to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the opening ceremonies of "Rendezvous '87," a round-robin hockey tournament in Quebec which pits American and Canadian all-stars against one another and the Soviet Union's national hockey team.
"The wealth of the tall grass prairie was its undoing," writes Author John Madson, of Godfrey, Ill., in Where the Sky Began, his evocative story of the fecund heartland. Nearly a year's production of corn lies unused in bins and warehouses. A quarter of a year of soybeans is...
Doodling as he was questioned, occasionally smiling coyly, Ringleader Walker described a venal world made glamorous by the trappings of a cheap thriller: the miniature Minox camera for photographing documents, the clandestine drops in suburban Virginia, the rendezvous with Soviet agents in Vienna and Casablanca. "Do not squander your money...
Then came Mir. On March 13, the Soviets sent veteran Cosmonauts Kizim, 44, and Solovyev, 39, aloft on Soyuz T-15 to activate the space platform, which had been launched into a slightly elliptical 210-mile-high orbit three weeks earlier.* The subsequent rendezvous marked a milestone: the establishment of...