Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party to the next to the din of drumbeats. The mood seems auspicious for the resumption of negotiations on the Panama Canal. Never before in twelve years of off-again, on-again talks have U.S. and Panamanian negotiators been more confident of success. In their bungalow, overlooking a white sand beach where they occasionally swim and sun themselves, they are quickly getting down to basics. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has been described as "eupeptic" over the possibility of finally signing a treaty by this summer -even though sizable obstacles remain...
What had saved him from disaster so many times, what had rescued him from public wrath, what had prevented his self-destructive urges from consuming him, was his humor. Humor had meant so much, he said. "You need detachment from yourself. You are only a small pebble on a sand of infinite expanse. You need to understand the sense of fragility of human aspirations...
Bounded by the Mediterranean and Red seas and the gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, the Sinai peninsula is a generally desolate stretch of sand dunes and granite mountains that is twice the size of Maryland. The desert is more hospitable to scorpions and camels than to men. Apart from Bedouins who wander the dunes and camp in the scattered oases, and soldiers who cautiously patrol old battlefields, Sinai's inhabitants hug the coastlines. Yet for all the peninsula's vast emptiness and apparent lack of natural wealth, Israel appears to be determined to hold on to a third...
...half-light. The accessible space in Sahara, for all the breadth of the piece, is a small womblike pocket. La Luna and Asia Solo can not be entered at all. They are not so much environments, therefore, as three-dimensional paintings, and their subject is landscape: moons and sand, licorice-colored skies, cave darkness, vines...
...plant, which at least has roots. Wintermouth finds and loses the cure for cancer. He is instantaneously transformed from the world's hero into its fool for that carelessness, and he ends up with Hitler's love letters to Eva Braun, which he finds buried in the sand. Still, he says-in what seems to be Guare's message as well-"the world needs heroes, or at least people who dream beyond themselves...