Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one thing marred the luxury-liner atmosphere that hung last week over the self-contained little world called Hassi Messaoud (Blessed Well): the waves that billowed around it were of sand, not of water. Hassi Messaoud, the Dawson City of the great French oil rush of 1959, lies deep in the barren wastes of the Sahara, 400 miles (or three days by truck) south of Algiers...
...made it one of the grandest and wealthiest cities of the empire. Nubian slaves, lions for the Roman arenas, ivory and African gold flowed through Leptis Magna into the civilized world, until the harbor silted up. Marauding Vandals sacked the city. Then, in A.D. 523 Berber raiders depopulated it. Sand crept in and swelled through the streets,, clogged the ancient irrigation system. By the 11th century Leptis Magna was utterly buried, forgotten...
Ignacio Zuloaga, the greatest Spanish painter of the recent past (one of whose El Grecos has recently gone to the Metropolitan Museum), was my godfather. Zuloaga was aware of the existence of the word "Solo" traced in the sand at the feet of the duchess, which has again come to light with the cleaning of the portrait. His interpretation of the word was "alone" or "lonely"-Lonely Goya-which would indicate the contrary of what the "experts" strive to prove with their translation "only" (which is, customarily, solamente...
...Ritter) try to fix him up with a nice widow (Eleanor Parker). The rest of the script is farced and furious until, at picture's end, Brother stops pinching pennies, Frankie stops pinching the girl upstairs, and the whole family, including the widow, fade out, frolicking in the sand...
...ignite Lebanon too. But the day after, at Lebanon's request, 3,500 U.S. marines landed. When the U.S. troops, more than 14,000 at one point, left three months later, not a single Lebanese had been killed or injured by the Americans. Tank treads in the sand have long since been obliterated; a four-man Cabinet under President Fuad Chehab, the relaxed army boss, still governs Lebanon by legislative decree; business is good once more. Net effect: the Middle East learned that the U.S. is ready to intervene (and ready to leave peacefully) and that the U.S.S.R. threatened...