Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Los Angeles. The water in the Sea of Galilee grows murkier by the year. Crime is on the increase: there were so many bank robberies in Tel Aviv last summer that the government had to bring in a force of tough, green-bereted border police from the Gaza Strip. Traffic jams are commonplace; for this year's celebration, all roads into Jerusalem will be closed for 24 hours to avoid the customary holiday snarl...
...TIME Correspondent Spencer Davidson reconstructed the events, the Israeli raiders zeroed in on their targets with awesome precision. Two groups landed on the luxurious western edge of the city. One group raced across a wide sandy strip known as Dead Man's Beach (because of the strong undertow in front), scaled a 40-ft. embankment and rendezvoused with three of the rented vehicles. Overhead, a sign atop the Beirut International Hotel serenely went on winking its ad for the " 1,000 and One Nights" supper club. The second Israeli group splashed ashore on a narrower beach half a mile...
Epic. The archaeologists have now found such evidence. Digging out another buried house last summer, they discovered fragments of a frieze painted in a continuous strip on three of its walls. Partially restored by experts of Athens' Byzantine Museum, the impressive 21-ft.-long wall painting portrays a detailed, DeMille-like epic of invasion and bloodshed. Spyridon Marinatos, the chief excavator and director of Greece's department of antiquities, compares it to the Iliad. "Homer is poetry in words," he says. "This is poetry in color...
...could've been the bar. Working class saloons lend themselves to conversation. That's where the emphasis lies, along with drinking. Because there's no formal entertainment, one is left to produce his/her own. Hence, talking. Strip joints remove the concentration from booze to women; drinking becomes an undercurrent, guilt-ridden diversions. (My misgivings always begin upon entrance. How do you strike up a snappy conversation with somebody who's only a third dressed?) The point, finally, is after boozy camaderie, or friendly conversation. And, if not barmaids...
...surrogate knight, his field of battle what Chandler called "the shadow line," his adversaries the people who walk it. In his present incarnation (Elliott Gould), Marlowe becomes a chain-smoking shlemiel. Gould looks less like a private eye than like a junkie half on the nod slouching along Sunset Strip looking for a fix. The only dope here is Marlowe himself. He stumbles into a job of playing wet nurse to an alcoholic fount of bestsellers (Sterling Hayden) whose ice-maiden wife (Nina Van Pallandt, late of the Clifford Irving/Howard Hughes headlines) plays at being concerned about his welfare...