Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sitting on a rock in the hot sun, the camera rousingly pans the still ships, accelerating as it goes along, and ends in a shot of the entire beach, covered with naked, sweating Greek soldiers. In a moment, the Greeks divide respectfully into two lines, as Agamemnon and Menelaus ride through. Suddenly, a man keels over in the path of the horses. He is duly removed. This is to show you how hot it is. Or take the scene in Argos, when a messenger delivers the letter from Agamemnon to Clytemnestra. She leans out, over the beautiful mountains, and calls...
John Havens commented yesterdat that "Everyone was mentally ready because we knew the matches would be tough. After the long bus ride to Dartmouth the first games were difficult, but everyone wanted...
...extras except tips and liquor, which can be purchased for 950 or so per drink. Savvy travelers choose their cruises wisely, considering the ship's size (big ones roll less but sometimes have many decks and too few elevators), the location of one's cabin (the smoothest ride is at midship), even the nationality of the chef. Ports of call are important only insofar as they proffer duty-free goodies; the real R. and R. is aboard ship, where a vacationer can be utterly free of quotidian pressures...
Although there are only about 216,000 cars registered in the city, they create monumental traffic jams as they try to negotiate the old, narrow streets or push aside carts pulled by horses or donkeys. The poor wait hours for buses, which are so crowded that passengers ride on the roofs and hang on the sides, clinging desperately to any vehicle that moves in the right direction...
...return flight from New York to Casablanca) have drawn away the younger set, while retired sun seekers have been lured to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The surprising boom of the Caribbean cruise business added to the damage; many a visitor this winter will merely ride through the Miami area en route from mainland airport to cruise-ship dock. A helter-skelter condominium boom that began in Miami Beach in the early '60s siphoned off tourists who had been paying $60 a day in the better hotels for the winter season. The result, as Hal Cohen, executive director...