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Except for Will Rogers, comedy seems to follow the same trope that holds for religion--it invariably moves from east to west. New York comics hit the big time and move west to Hollywood, British humor sweeps westward across the Atlantic to the East Coast. Since the Second World War this ageless migration has been performed by Peter Sellers, Beyond the Fringe and most recently, Monty Python's Flying Circus...
...Indonesia on the south. The impact tore open the ship's bottom, and an estimated 20,000 bbl. of oil leaked into the water. The five-square-mile slick that formed first threatened to smear the sparkling white beaches of Singapore's Sentosa Island, then began drifting westward toward more open water...
Subway Series, those baseball spectaculars which keep one city in a frenzy and the rest of the nation looking on, are probably a thing of the past. In the past 15 years, many eastern franchises moved westward: the Giants from New York to San Francisco and the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, for example, so the chances of Subway Series became more and more remote...
...room Damascus-Sheraton and a 400-room French Meridien. In the meantime, the old hotels and marketplaces are suddenly filled with Western and Japanese businessmen who sense the tantalizing opportunities that Economy Minister Imadi has outlined. If disengagement and peace work out, Damascenes will once again look westward. "We prefer the West," one government official said recently. "Not exclusively, but generally...
Giant Strides. On a clear stretch of highway, Shaw skates with the grace of a slalom skier or dancer. With giant strides of legs and arms, head high, he races westward through the cornfields. One clearly senses that there is more driving him on than the headlines in local papers. For Shaw, there is another dimension of reality out there on the great American asphalt. "Coming down a long hill with the wind at your back and the road to yourself is a high," Shaw says. "It's a thrill you never forget." He sees considerable wildlife and often...