Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of Reds is a nonstop narrative that climaxes with skyrockets over Red Square and finds its denouement in a lovely Liebestod. The script, by Beatty and British Playwright Trevor Griffiths (with help, reportedly, from Elaine May and Robert Towne), is a series of small quick steps that deftly transport Reed from Pancho Villa's Mexico to Emma Goldman's Greenwich Village to Eugene O'Neill's Provincetown to everybody's Petrograd-and take Louise with...
...Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. But when the French liner burned and capsized at its Manhattan dock in 1942, it was not so much its beauty that was mourned as the loss of one of the fastest passenger ships ever built, then being refitted as an Allied troop transport that could outrun any U-boat. In Normandie Triangle (Arbor House; 475 pages; $13.95), Novelist Justin Scott evokes the grace and power of the great ship even as he describes its destruction and welds an ambitious Nazi stratagem to the smoldering hulk...
...surplus of $5 billion, mostly in drug-generated $50 and $100 bills, or more than the nation's twelve Federal Reserve banks combined. Drug money has corrupted banking, real estate, law enforcement and even the fishing industry, whose practitioners are abandoning the pursuit of snapper and grouper for the transport of bales of marijuana ("square grouper," as fishermen call it) from freighters at sea to the mainland. About one-third of the region's murders are drug-related...
Newly tightened enforcement of bank reporting laws has made it vastly more difficult to send large sums anonymously from the U.S. to Colombia, yet the money still manages to get through. Every week a Colombian air force C-130 transport plane flies to Fort Lauderdale with wooden crates containing up to $10 million from Colombia's central bank. The surplus greenbacks are being legally returned by Bogota to the Federal Reserve System in exchange for credit...
Bright Star began impressively. Some 500 U.S. military vehicles, ranging from trucks to armored personnel carriers to self-propelled howitzers and 155-mm field guns, rumbled off U.S. Navy transport ships in Alexandria. Waves of C-5A, C-141 and C-130 transports touched down at Cairo West Air Base, ferrying in supplies, equipment and 4,000 U.S. military personnel wearing newly designed desert camouflage fatigues...