Word: turkishly
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...woodwind would do well to consider reverting to the policy of earlier summers and making all its concerts free - at least to students - since the Summer School reportedly shows a fat profit every year. It is really niggardly to ask students to pay money to sit it a Turkish bath and listen to music saddled with obbligati by fire sirens, motorcycle mufflers, and horns of the non-french variety...
...meeting with Athenagoras, primate of Orthodoxy, was clearly the main purpose of the Pope's visit. In large measure, the diffident reception accorded Paul reflected Turkish dislike for Athenagoras, the titular spiritual leader of Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, whom the Turks despise. In retaliation against Greek Cypriot "atrocities," the Turks have expelled many of the country's Orthodox believers, even hinted that Athenagoras, although a Turkish citizen, might some day be forced into exile...
...battle scenes, Richardson enlisted 600 horses, 727 cavalrymen and 3,000 infantrymen, compliments of the Turkish Chief of Staff. Trouble was, most of the horses were aged mounts purchased from the U.S. Army when it disbanded its cavalry. When it came time to film the 1?-mile charge, many of the horses could barely finish. As for the soldiers, they just kept smiling broadly-at the camera. And when they were called upon to fall in battle, they spoiled everything by rolling on the ground and laughing...
...were other problems. To begin with, Richardson's Woodfall Productions had to negotiate individual contracts amounting to $35,800 with each of 749 villagers who owned portions of the 3,000 acres in the valley. Then, since the valley floor was marshy, the company had to hire the Turkish National Waterworks to drain it at a cost of $40,000. And so it went, through unseasonable cold spells and rainstorms that flattened tents and scuttled beach scenes on the Black Sea. Then, two weeks ago, just when the cast thought they had survived the worst, the country was rocked...
...Varto area, scene of a violent quake that killed 2,477 people last August. It was the second earthquake to sunder Turkey within five days; on July 22 about 100 people were killed and 300 injured in a series of shocks that struck 50 towns near Adapazari. Like previous Turkish quakes (see map), the latest disasters were located along the Anatolian Fault, a particularly lethal segment of the earthquake belts that coil around the globe. Along the Anatolian Fault, some 40,000 persons have lost their lives in eleven earthquakes since...