Word: aztec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Avocation. In Aztec, N. Mex., Prisoner Elmer Morrow, acting as gardener for the courthouse grounds, was freed, but asked (and got) permission to stay in jail long enough to finish the spring planting...
...grounds a shell-roofed cosmic-ray laboratory shows the functional influence; translucent marble towers follow the "international" style of French architect Le Corbusier; glass-studded classroom cupolas renew the familiar form of the Spanish colonial. But all bear-in color, in texture, in decoration or design-the authentic Aztec mark of Mexico...
...pounds of lead and radioactive cobalt was stolen, three Rembrandt etchings valued at $11,000 were stolen and an alumnus disappeared. Kopliner retrieved the cobalt through the blood stains of the thief, but the etchings, along with $11,000 worth of stamps from Brown, and $11,000 worth of Aztec trinkets from Penn, are still missing. The alumnus turned up a year and a half later trapped in a sunken auto...
...chamber with sumptuous murals, some of them under water but shielded from water damage by mixing polystyrene with his pigments and coating the whole with transparent rubber (TIME, June 4). For the outside, he designed a large pool (see cut), in which reclines a giant sculpture of Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god. Rivera calls this "the first work of plastic art ever done to be seen from a helicopter...
...mural's other panel, Cuauhtémoc appears as a conqueror (which he was not), dressed in the armor of the men who beat him and wearing an Aztec crown. "He's a fighting symbol of our national independence," Siqueiros said, "of independence not yet entirely won." Added Siqueiros, who keeps up to date on party literature even when busy with a spray gun: "I see in Cuauhtémoc [a prototype of] Mao Tse-tung of China, Luis Carlos Prestes of Brazil, the leaders of the Viet Minh and the fighters for the nationalization of Iran...