Word: riverboats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chatter of the pirate stations are sprayed so widely across the medium-range radio frequencies that they have become a communications hazard. In Donetsk, many of the illegal transmitters were on the frequency of the railway switching station of this important industrial center. On the inland Sea of Azov, riverboat skippers complain that they cannot hear routing orders because of interference by Elvis Presley tapes. Judged even more hazardous, however, were the broadcasts of an operator in Vilna, Lithuania, who has been sentenced to three years in prison for "anti-Soviet agitation." His crime: retransmitting Western newscasts taped from...
...three decades, reported on the reactions of Egyptians to the Nixon trip. Though at the start of his assignment he was unceremoniously evicted from his quarters at the Nile Hilton to make room for "the likes of Dean Fischer," and had to take up temporary residence on a Nile riverboat, his experiences quickly took an upward turn. "In the little town of Kafr az Zayyat," Wynn writes, "the crowd dragged me up to the front row to stand beside the mayor as the presidential train roared past. Later, villagers-all total strangers but understanding that I was an American-insisted...
Liberia's ramshackle capital of Monrovia used to look a little like a gigantic Mississippi riverboat minstrel show. The men at the Masonic Lodge dressed in top hats and black morning coats; the ladies at the Baptist church wore flowing skirts and bandannas; and everybody spoke in an exaggerated Deep South drawl. In these mannerisms they imitated both their forebears, freedmen who returned from the U.S. in 1822 and subsequently founded Africa's first republic, and their president, William Vacanarat Shadrach ("Uncle Shad") Tubman, who ran the country with a kind of dandified despotism from 1944 until...
...Swedes set sail. Ulysses had no more epochal journey than the ones made by 19th century aliens. Seasick, verminous, unable to hold their meager rations, the passengers think themselves in hell without the intervening grace of death. When the survivors reach harbor their true journey begins. Aboard a riverboat, they become aware of the flaws in the fable. Rich folk stride upon the top deck; down below are the new arrivals. Below them are Negro slaves, chained to each other and to a corrupted ideal...
...African Queen. The classic Huston-Agee riverboat romance, with an illiterate Humphrey Bogart and missionary Katherine Hepburn chugging their way through a German-filled Congo during World War I. Also, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman's poetic, authentic northwestern--an excruciatingly honest love story. HARVARD SQUARE CINEMA. McCabe: 2:15, 6, 9:40; Queen...