Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When his commander ordered his decimated squadron to withdraw from the Battle of Copenhagen, Admiral Nelson clapped a telescope to his blind eye, exclaiming: "I really do not see the signal!" He ended, of course, by winning the battle. His namesake, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, can also affect a blind eye when he chooses, and so far it has served him well...
...long day's courtship moves from the beach to an impromptu airplane excursion to the Copenhagen zoo, then home and bed, but not before the would-be seducer confides: "Every time you reach a port, you think you'll find what you want. By the time you leave a place, you're sick of it." Lindgren's camera dotes on closeups, catching every glimmer of doubt, every stab of loneliness, until the whole film tingles with a heady sense of discovery. Finally, it sees through the girl's eyes that the hot-blooded mariner...
...SEVERING GAZZELONI, 47, the grand master of the difficult contemporary repertory, this week begins a monthlong concert tour that will take him from Copenhagen to Tripoli to Minneapolis. Fidgety and ferret-bright, Gazzeloni started noodling around with atonal music about 20 years ago, got fascinated when he found that in order to play the new music he had to dispense with the traditional flute technique and develop a new one. After several years of experiment, he developed one that permits him to cacophonize like an electronic menagerie. His art appalls the classical masters, but it reveals an exciting and significant...
...order Danish pastry in Copenhagen and people will shrug their shoulders in dismay. They call it Vienna bread. Ask for vichyssdise in Vichy: until recently the French waiter said blankly, "Pardon?" And why should he know? It was invented in 1917 by Louis Diat, the chef at New York's Ritz-Carlton Hotel to take advantage of all those extra potatoes...
...fact that, along with, options on more planes for Middle East Airlines, the winning bidder would also sell jets to such smaller carriers as United Arab and Kuwait Airways. Besides, 20-year-old Middle East Airlines itself has become increasingly competitive, now flies from Beirut to Bombay, Zurich and Copenhagen, plans to go soon to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro to serve a million Lebanese emigres in Latin America...