Word: touring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab policy of trying to force the U.S. to abandon Israel in favor of the Arabs. He knew that only as a friend of Israel could the U.S. influence it. "You have a special relationship with Israel," he told a group of American businessmen on a TlME-sponsored tour of the Middle East, "and I want you to keep that relationship." While Sadat encouraged American leaders to believe that a Middle East peace was in their interest, he also forged a tight alliance with Saudi Arabia?not only his bankroller but also a vital source of U.S. energy supplies...
...still can't believe we're actually here and right in front of the pyramids too." Said Ehud Yarri, an Israeli TV commentator: "We had our doubts before we landed in Cairo, but when they saw the Israeli passports, they just applauded." Later, during a tour of the capital, a group of Israelis were spotted by Cairenes at a café", who shouted; "Long live Sadat! Long live the Israeli delegation of peace!" With that, other Egyptians began clapping and crying: "Shalom! Shalom...
...Haley, Little Richard and the early Beatles. The songs are angrier than the soft rock that spun out of Southern California onto the record charts this year, and Costello sings them with a prophet's urgency. In the light of his sizzling reception on a just completed U.S. tour, the message seems clear: rock may still be smooth and sophisticated at the top, but it is getting good and rough again down below...
...favorite image of the beaches that border most of the U.S. In The Wild Shores of North America (Knopf; 240 pages; $35), Ann and Myron Sutton manage to capture nearly all of them. Beginning in the icebound Arctic, they take the armchair beachcomber on a scenic tour down the East Coast, past Cape Cod and the islands, along the perilous shoals of the Carolinas, through the lost waterways of the Everglades and Louisiana bayous, then up the West Coast from the desert sands of Baja California, past the cypresses of Monterey and the great coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest...
...Happenings were too complex for simple appreciation. Edward Lucie-Smith, an English critic, attempts to pave a smooth, orderly path through this jungle of schools, styles, waves and blips. In Art Now (Morrow; 504 pages; $29.95) he efficiently gets the reader from abstract expressionism to superrealism. Like a package-tour guide, he hits the peaks and some of the troughs. The visual impact of the more than 350 color plates is vigorous. But the pace of the survey is so brisk that the reader may find himself thinking, "If this is Thursday, it must be Lichtenstein...