Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even lack of water does not stop the determined. The town of Williamsburg, Iowa, staged a beach party last month when organizers trucked in 3 million lbs. of sand and declared that the pile was No-Wa-Wa Beach. Amid the tall corn, frolickers in bright trunks and coconut-shell bikinis played volleyball and rode around in convertibles. "It's easy for states that have oceans to have beach parties," says Organizer Steve Gander. "But in the middle of Iowa, we have to try a little harder...
...group left San Francisco June 7 and rode between 40 and 120 miles a day for nine and a half weeks. Every night, they stopped in a small town and were housed and fed by local community or church groups. In each town the students made formal presentations about Oxfam and Save the Children projects, and "just talked to people," said Kevin Peterson, a student at Berkeley...
...have to go standby, but if you don't mind waiting until about 2 a.m., you'll get there). When you get off in Vineyard Haven, drive in the direction of Gay Head--up Island--until you get to Chilmark. Don't stop to look for a town, because there isn't one to look for. Just off the main road you'll find the Chilmark Community Center, a graying Cape Cod shingle building with four ill-kept clay tennis courts out back. In the far court on the left, whipping the ball over the net at breakneck speed, will...
...settings of Regrets Only--a major Washington newsroom, high-powered dinner parties--are unmistakably Sally Quinn's turf. Hostesses are grasping, Senators calculating, and just about everybody randy. "It's a novel about Washington," Quinn explains. "There are so many living and breathing cliches walking around this town that you sort of have to put them in." An amorous Arab diplomat gives a blond reporter a Mercedes. Before the Shah fell, it was rumored that Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi had offered Quinn one. "It never happened, but some papers reported that it did," says Quinn...
...January. They underlined yet again the bloody logic of Beirut's seemingly senseless cycle of sectarian vendettas. No groups claimed responsibility for the bombings, but Christian leaders promptly blamed the East Beirut atrocity on Muslims, charging that they were acting for the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad. Across town in his West Beirut headquarters, Nabih Berri, the chief of the predominantly Shi'ite Amal militia, ascribed the Barbir bombing to Christian militiamen bent on revenge. More radical Shi'ites claimed that the Christian perpetrators were acting as "lackeys of Israel...