Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What better locale for high-speed writing on the symbol-strewn walls of modern culture than in a cheese shop in Paris? Calvino enters wielding pen like bludgeon or scalpel, a bull in a cheese shop, breaking all the codes. He leaves the Reader with a picture of Mr. Palomar, balancing notebook on knee, pen on paper, scribbling down names, sizes, colors, mold formations, as if his frantic doodling could create another map of the stars, a gastronomy of everyday life. Mr. Palomar does take on a persona, and at the same time becomes a recognizable character, when he sonic...
...propaganda value of the base is probably as strong and useful to Castro as when he first used it extensively for such purposes back in the mid '60s. At the only functional gate remaining in the barbed-wire-lined and mine-strewn perimeter, I saw a sign on the Cuban side. Through binoculars I could read it: Territorio Libertad de America. And one of the weekends I was there, we heard that a huge Cuban independence celebration was being held in nearby Guantanamo City. Castro himself was supposed to attend. It's not hard to imagine the type of speech...
Like many a weary traveler, Norman Panish has had enough of delayed flights and airport lobbies packed with stranded passengers. Panish once arrived at London's Heathrow, he recalls, and saw "bodies strewn on the floor, literally thousands of people jammed in." When he was fogged in at New York's Kennedy on another occasion, "there was just no place to put us. It was a near riot...
...first, so I didn't know that everybody didn't have kids like him," she recalls with a happy shrug. "I just hung on for dear life. He was always the center of attention, ruling his three younger sisters. And me too, actually. Our living room was strewn with cables and floodlights -- that's where Steven did his filming. We never said no. We never had a chance to say no. Steven didn't understand that word...
...fleet of more than a dozen military and merchant vessels. By early evening the workers had picked up 144 bodies and airlifted them to Cork, where Irish authorities set up a special mortuary. The possibility of anyone's surviving was remote. One rescue spotter likened the body-strewn scene to "a battlefield...