Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were quartered in the city's main hotels. From the Nile Hilton, they could walk across a huge red carpet to the Arab Socialist Union auditorium next door. Battalions of black-bereted Egyptian police lined the roads, ringed the official buildings, and even guarded the Hilton's roof and stairways. In short, the delegates were protected from everything, suggested a local wit, except the hotel's mayonnaise...
Color breaks over one like a wave in Jenshel and Epstein's work. Jenshel seeks out the shocking pink in everything--not only in a heart-shaped chair or curtains, but even in a slate roof, or a pine tree's needles. Epstein has two palettes, one to render brilliant events like a fire, one of muted greys and browns to capture the mysterious moods of, say, a harbor. Both photographers' use of color is exhilarating, sensuous. Awash in it, one slips the moorings of sane and pedestrian vision...
...course, Jackie Gleason graced his own tournament. A stalwart devotee of the game, Gleason invested $8000 for a Bicentennial golf cart sporting red-white-and-blue trim, CB radio, five-inch color TV, tape deck, electrically-powered roof...
...crash. Haining wistfully relates the tale of Bladud, a doomed 9th century British king, who borrowed a page from Greek mythologies and perished like Icarus with a pair of feather-and-wax wings. George Faux, a 19th century English eccentric was more fortunate. In 1862 he jumped from a roof, flapped his arms violently and plummeted, bruised but undiscouraged, to the ground. "I'm really a good flyer," he explained as he staggered from the crash site. "But I cannot alight very well...
Otherwise, the Carters seemed to be having fun. With the exception of Son Jack and his family, living in Calhoun, Ga., where he practices law, the entire clan is under the same roof after two years of constant separations because of the campaign. Excited at the newness of it all, Jimmy Carter rose every morning at 6:30, drank orange juice while he dressed, and was in the Oval Office by 7, reading the newspapers and his daily news summary. Although his staff is a shirtsleeves-style crew, Carter has so far worked in a coat and tie, forgoing...