Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emphasize the changing character of his regime, Premier George Papadopoulos last week granted his first interview in many months to a foreign newsman. Over cups of thick Turkish coffee in his wood-paneled office in Athens, Papadopoulos told TIME'S Wilton Wynn of his desire to reestablish parliamentary government in Greece, reaffirmed his allegiance to King Constantine and declared his own willingness to step down from power. Self-confident and relaxed, the Premier avoided any reference to the seamier side of his army-backed regime, which still holds 1,800 Greeks in prison camps in the Aegean islands...
...opening remarks were lost on his hosts-because the official assigned to turn on the public-address system was asleep at the switch. Then De Gaulle noticed that his interpreter had got ahead of him. Nudging the man, De Gaulle growled, "I did not say that." Finally, the Turkish security police were no match for rampaging photographers, one of whom got his camera within two feet of the general's nose during the playing of the Marseillaise...
...five-day state visit was clearly off to a bad start, even though penitent Turkish authorities promptly sacked the security chief and promised to send the forgetful official to some Turkish equivalent of Siberia. That night at dinner, President Cevdet Sunay gently reminded his guest that Turkey intended to remain a staunch member of NATO. Formerly, he said, Turkey had worked as hard as France for an East-West détente, but the occupation of Czechoslovakia had "unfortunately shown us that our optimism was too great...
...Gaulle also cruised aboard the 6,400-ton presidential yacht, whose opulence included deep Turkish carpeting. De Gaulle was attended by a nubile Turkish blonde clad in a red veil, blue tunic and diaphanous harem pants. Local wags had suggested that De Gaulle had an even chance of sighting a Soviet warship en route to join the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean. Though nothing was said about the impressive Russian naval buildup, De Gaulle had ordered a fat file on the Soviet fleet a week before the trip...
Ultimately the real concern of this movie is not to tell us what the Charge of the Light Brigade meant, but simply to show us how it looked. And this, for all the cast of thousands and the vast expanses of eerie, treeless Turkish landscape, is something which Richardson doesn't really succeed in doing. Individual sequences are sometimes breathtaking--Nolan delivering the order to charge from the heights, the Brigade advancing down the valley at a slow trot, the final torrential surge of the survivors through the Russian cannon. But hovering above the whole elaborately-conceived spectacle...