Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cairo, Marilyn and her husband Leon, 69, stayed aboard. A retired appliance manufacturer, Leon had been confined to a wheelchair after suffering two strokes during the past three years. Another member of the group, Mildred Hodes, of Springfield, N.J., had planned to join her husband Frank on the Cairo trip, but at the last moment she changed her mind. That decision very nearly cost Mildred Hodes her life...
...through no fewer than eight levels of command. The Marines' failure to dig in properly against terrorist attack--at the cost of 241 lives--was attributed partly to signals lost or mixed up in the endless command chain. Bureaucracies inevitably breed officers who have little better to do than trip over one another. The U.S. fought World War II with 101 three-star generals and admirals; now there are 118. Observed Nunn: "It takes more admirals and generals to wage peace than...
...that should come in a gift box. "Great!" he says, grabbing his companion in a tight hug, as if some souvenir sphinx had suddenly surrendered a secret. To all the patrons in the hotel lobby, it looks as if old friends were reuniting at the end of a long trip; in fact, any voyage with Issey Miyake is ongoing. "Next time I make like that, and you do something different again," he laughs. "Always fresh, always different, always challenge. That way is best, I think. Want...
Repose is not a part of this picture, of course, and relaxation is mostly a rumor. Holidays usually have some sort of affiliated work benefits--"Sand," says his colleague Komuro, "can turn into an accessory"--and he likes challenges in his recreation as well as his vocation. On a trip last year to the Kutch desert in the Indian state of Gujarat, his car broke down in the middle of a bridge spanning a salt sea. While friends fought off fantasies of sunstroke, dehydration and death in the wilderness, Miyake gazed at the weird water patterns below him, exclaiming, "This...
...least, that is just as well. In May he lived out a long-cherished goal and traveled the southwestern United States by car, and he is now dreaming of further voyages. To Buenos Aires in November; to Tahiti for the new year. "Make me a plan for my trip," he will ask friends who have covered the same territory. "I'll go anywhere," he adds, although there is no mistaking that. "Where there are roads. Where there aren't any roads...