Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the roads near Middleburg, Va., a convoy of limousines daily moved into a lavish colonial estate called Huntlands, only three miles from President Kennedy's winter weekend spot, Glen Ora.* Shielded from prying eyes by a high, cream-colored brick wall, diplomats from The Netherlands and Indonesia met with U.S. Mediator Ellsworth Bunker, former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Italy and India, to try to negotiate their dispute over the control of Netherlands New Guinea. Last week, after 4½ weary months, the negotiators shook hands on a deal...
...Walled Beach. A special machine-gun-toting detachment in Tirana patrols what the handful of remaining foreign diplomats call the "ghetto": the comfortable residential quarter in which the Communist elite have their villas. Even on the beach at Durres, Albania's chief seaside resort 25 miles west of the capital, a wall extends across the sand and into the Adriatic to keep an area reserved for the privileged separate from vacationing workers whose families share dingy tin huts on the wrong side of the barrier...
...fastest-growing newspaper in Japan is not one of its five giant dailies with circulations of a million or more, but the Wall Street Journal of Japan's business world, Nikon Keizai Shimbun (circ...
...thus have a play within a play. But there is more, Thyrsus and Corydon, dressed leotard-fashion as for a black ballet, begin a play within a play within a play. They build an imaginary wall between themselves. Shortly they have taken it so seriously that it is a real wall of hate and hostility leading Thyrsus to poison Corydon with contaminated water at the same time he strangles her with a supposed necklace of rich jewels. It all happens very fast. In reality it is alla gama. But Thyrsus and Corydon die. And even though it was only...
...much more. Information in the program notes notwithstanding. Boubouroche owes its existence to more than the author's general mistrust of women, being in point of fact the dramatization of a true incident. For years Courteline had been living on the other side of a paper-thin wall from the mistress of poet Catulle Mendes, and for as many years had been silent witness to the infidelities she would blithely commit with a hidden lover the minute Mendes had closed the door behind him. Years later Courteline confessed all this to Mendes, who found it very amusing and insisted that...