Word: snaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph Conrad described the Congo River as "an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea . . . its tail lost in the depths of the land." Peter Forbath shares Conrad's feeling for this mighty, mysterious river, which rises in southeastern Central Africa, more than 1,000 miles south of the equator and about a mile above sea level, and ends 3,000 miles later in the Atlantic Ocean. Forbath first saw the river as a journalist during the Simba uprising that bloodied the Congo basin in 1964. He has spent the intervening years assembling the story of what Central...
...insecurity in Max von Sydow. He gives a towering performance. In intensity, innate authority and mordant humor, this is acting in the thermodynamic range. Bibi Andersson is pallid by comparison, a picture-postcard beauty who recites her lines without the intent to lacerate-rather strange considering her snake-fanged delivery as a wife in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. Eileen Atkins is in Von Sydow's league. She encases herself in a palpable shield of silence and then hurls her lines like javelins dead on the mark...
Another freshman duo (do they ever run out?) of Diane Leary and Sheila Hopkins snake-eyed their opposition. Western grips, top spin shots and Leary's net shot down the last of the flying elephants...
...Snake bracelets, gold beads, earrings, shields and golden vessels that weigh two kilos apiece just a few of the other things that invite one, but perhaps the gold and silver rhyta are the highlight of the show. These are drinking horns in the shape of animal or human heads,and they were created in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. when Greek influence on Thracian art was strongest. One golden rhyton is decorated with reliefs of Hera, Artemis and Apollo around the rim and a billy goat at the base--the wine gushes from a spout in the goat...
...increase. Sweden, expecting a $3.6 billion balance of payments deficit by year's end and struggling with an annual rate of inflation at about 16%, last week devalued the krona by 10%, and is considering other austerity measures. The country also pulled out of the European monetary "snake," the collection of currencies tied to the West German mark, because Stockholm wanted to devalue the krona much more than snake rules allow. Because their economies are closely tied to Sweden's, Denmark and Norway felt obliged to devalue their own currencies by 5%, but neither followed Sweden...