Word: nile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...position toward the Palestinian cause did not begin with the creation of the P.L.O. We believe Israel has aspirations beyond Palestinian territory. Israel aspires to the establishment of a state from the Nile to the Euphrates...
...Paris in the 1981 La Boheme and put the Forbidden City on the stage with his 1987 Turandot. When Zeffirelli's designs turned out to be too big and expensive, Gianni Quaranta, Zeffirelli's set decorator on several films, was engaged instead. Quaranta has conjured up a storybook Nile replete with towering statues, colorful friezes and a couple of skittish horses to pull Radames' chariot during the Triumphal March. Employing the two-tiered hydraulic stage lift a la Franco, Quaranta triggered the evening's longest ovation by gratuitously transforming Amneris' private chambers into a huge public square. Such technical sleight...
...Prize for Literature were once more caught off guard. Naguib who? The answer: Mahfouz, a 76-year-old Egyptian novelist, playwright and film writer. If the choice was predictably unpredictable, the selection procedure seemed familiar. The Swedish Academy again paddled out of the mainstream, this time heading up the Nile to honor the first Arabic writer in the 87-year history of the prize...
Yousef Yagoub, 30, a tomato farmer and father of four, sleeps on a dirty piece of cardboard, the muddy waters of the Nile slapping menacingly near his feet. Before the floods, he and his family lived in a flimsy hut made of tree branches. Now only the roof is left, barely poking above the water about 50 yards offshore. "Life," he says, "is too difficult...
...centuries the Nile has brought life to Sudan's impoverished inhabitants. But torrential thunderstorms this summer have turned the river into a killer. More than 8 inches of rain -- twice the average for an entire year -- fell on Sudan in 13 hours last month. Meanwhile, a seasonal surge of water was heading north from central Africa. The combination sent the river raging over its banks, killing nearly 100 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. In Khartoum, the capital, sewage-contaminated floodwater swept through squatters' camps, destroying thousands of homes. Farther north, whole villages were submerged. In the famine-stricken south...