Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have never seen a market like this," says Donald Stone, a member of the New York Stock Exchange since 1950 and one of its vice chairmen. "The market has spiked up without any meaningful correction; it won't even pause to catch its breath." Peter Cohen, a New York City real estate broker and large investor, muses, "Even in the sizzling '60s, it was an article of faith that what goes up must come down. But those who have played by this rule now have left huge amounts of profit on the table. I have sold at a profit, then...
...Guccione started Spin two years ago with a $500,000 loan from his father, but maintained editorial independence and was the sole owner of the Spin trademark. Off to a promising start, Spin has built a circulation of 150,000 and become a respectable challenger to its archrival Rolling Stone (circ. 400,000). But the elder Guccione, whose company has taken about $3 million in losses on Spin, wanted to assume authority over the magazine by making it part of the Penthouse business. His son refused to give up control and now hopes to keep Spin alive with backing from...
...Saudis were not as lucky. According to accounts pieced together last week, the trouble began on Friday, only minutes after the end of midday prayer services. In 115 degrees heat, a white-robed sea of penitents swarmed around the Sacred Mosque, where the devout come to touch the Black Stone, a meteorite inside the shrine that millions of pilgrims have worn smooth over the centuries in the belief that it will absolve them of sin. Suddenly the worshipers' hymns and shouts of Allahu-Akhbar! (God is great) were drowned out. Crying "Death to America! Death to the Soviet Union! Death...
...centuries, the precise design of the trireme has posed a baffling mystery. Underwater archaeologists have found the wracks of ancient, sail- driven merchantmen but no remains of the oar-studded warships. Vase paintings, coins, classical writings, excavations at ancient ship sheds and inscribed- stone inventories of the Piraeus dockyards have contributed some ideas. Scholars know that trireme hulls were light, long and slender, displacing some 22 tons, measuring about 123 ft. in length and 19 ft. at the beam, with a draft of slightly more than...
...three areas: surrealism (it has perhaps the best Magrittes of any museum in the world), archaic Mediterranean objects and African tribal art. But everywhere in the collection one encounters images, large and small, whose intensity comes fairly burning out of the vitrine or off the wall, from a horrendous stone Celtic effigy of the Tarasque, or earth demon, to a gold Byzantine reliquary in the form of a miniature sarcophagus. Their vividness is helped by the subtle and often witty installation carried out by the Menil's director, Walter Hopps. It is not "systematic," presenting objects by period or, rigidly...