Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highway and on the hills flanking it was a massive concentration of tanks, transport, bulldozers, communications vehicles and Jeeps. Along the route I saw at least 200 tanks, and no doubt many more were parked beyond my vision. About a dozen miles from Beirut, I walked to a point where a phalanx of tanks lined the rim of a hill, their guns pointing down to another resort town, Bhamdoun. A Syrian officer stood atop one of the tanks, and, as we talked, machine guns mounted on the next tank began blazing away. Leftist forces still held Bhamdoun, and the Syrians...
DeLillo plunks this passive protagonist down in a futuristic think tank called Field Experiment No. 1. His task, to decode a series of radio pulses being received from the vicinity of a G dwarf designated as Ratner's Star. Billy is soon accosted by a parade of scientists and deep thinkers. Their names (Shlorno Glottic, Grbk, Orang Mohole, Desilu Espy, Hoy King Toy) seem to peg them as refugees from Thomas Pynchon's Central Casting. Their inevitable behavior - alternately cerebral and cloacal - confirms the identification...
...Middle East last week involved a country whose politics are murky even at the best of times. Is Syria's President Hafez Assad in serious trouble because of Lebanon? Israeli intelligence officials, no friends of Assad obviously, predicted that Syria "is on the eve of a coup." Syrian tank units, the Israelis said, had been pulled back to Damascus to protect the President. Palestinians in Beirut, who are also hostile to Assad's regime, insisted that Syrian army officers had been jailed for protesting their government's orders...
Whatever the material or the subject, the sense of design never falters. Nor the painstaking labor required of kimono makers. The most difficult technique was known as sō-hitta, or overall tie-dyeing. The word suggests rich hippies in blotchy homemade tank tops, but the Japanese craftsmen of the Edo period raised this system of knotting and immersion-dyeing to a most taxing pitch of subtlety. The furisode ("swinging sleeves" kimono), with its design of a lone pine tree running up the back, required hundreds of thousands of knots, each placed with fanatical precision so that the untied...
...Fellini's penchant for detail is no laughing matter. Filming a Venice canal sequence in an outdoor tank, the maestro ordered 200 rats into the water. "Stop!" he shouted after noticing that half the rats were white: "Paint them brown." His hard-pressed casting staff is often given a sketch of a type of face he wants and ordered off to the back alleys of Rome in search of their prey. For Fellini, the right face is everything. "I chose Sutherland because he is completely alien to the conventional idea of Casanova-the dark-eyed Italian, magnetic, raven locks...