Word: oriente
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City. There his latest "salute to the unknown art of living" is a wryly provocative exhibition designed to prove that bathing, eating, sleeping, sitting and a few other domestic matters were managed better in older cultures, especially in the Orient...
...international prominence through her portrayals of working-class women in such English films as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and This Sporting Life (1963); of as yet undetermined causes; in Los Angeles. After divorcing Actor Rex Harrison in 1971, she appeared in films like Murder on the Orient Express...
Fiery red calligraphy on shiny black bags --The Orient Expressed at Jordan Marsh...
...Every day is a day of joy aboard the M.S. Prinsendam. Six passenger decks are devoted to the luxurious vacation life you expect, with an ambience of intimacy and charm." So begins a lavish illustrated brochure touting the pleasures of cruising to Alaska and the Orient aboard the Holland America Line's gleaming 426-ft. Prinsendam. Notes the pamphlet: "Your Dutch officers are dedicated to making every moment memorable...
...Before government officials arrived, for example, many of the garimpeiros had been throwing away "black gold," an impure mixture that can be refined to yield ordinary gold and palladium, a valuable metal in its own right, as well as manganese. Says a government mining engineer: "Our job is to orient the garimpeiros. They're individualists. Many were small farmers. They know this is the chance of a lifetime." On yet another level, official price controls wiped out the barracão, with the government trucking in 40 tons of food and other supplies a week. Says one garimpeiro, "This...