Word: timbuktu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where would this guy go? It had to besomeplace obscure. If not Green Bay, maybe Butte,Montana. Or Nome, Alaska. I tried EllesmereIsland, Canada. Timbuktu, Mali. I struck...
...ordinary skyjacking, no incident involving some troubled soul who needed to be jollied or sweet-talked or strong-armed out of a free ride to Havana or Timbuktu. It was an American plane, Trans World Airlines' Flight 847 on its leg from Athens to Rome, with 153 passengers and crew members aboard, at least 100 of whom were Americans. Most important, the hijackers were identified by an accomplice as members of Islamic Jihad (or Holy War), the shadowy Shi'ite Muslim organization that is regarded as a sort of umbrella for various fundamentalist terror groups operating in Lebanon and other...
Wilde recently took over the post of Nairobi bureau chief from John Borrell, a correspondent in Africa for twelve years, who joined TIME 15 months ago. Borrell visited half a dozen countries for the story, and even made his way to Timbuktu, the remote Malian walled city that for centuries has conjured up exotic images among non-Africans...
There probably would be less complaint if amplification were not so apparent-and so annoying. But it usually is both. The sound system of the 1978 Eartha Kitt musical Timbuktu! sounded like a tinny radio with failing batteries. The Pirates of Penzance, which has a better system, is nonetheless obviously miked. Then there are the mistakes that give soundmen high-volume nightmares. When Dreamgirls opened, an actor's body microphone jammed another, set on the same frequency, in a neighboring theater, where The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was playing. (A wireless body mike, hidden on a performer...
Nevertheless, Perkins observes, "Some Houses you go into, you wouldn't know whether the Masters are here or in Timbuktu. A Master if he is enthusiastic about the House, is infectious." Such enthusiasm, he says will remain crucial "if the Houses and the House system continue to be the elements essential to the preservation and strengthening of Harvard College...