Word: aztecs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Needed Lift. What has made most of the difference is some 200 huge murals on the sides of once drab buildings. The idea of the wall paintings-which include bright abstract designs, realistic scenes of barrio life, mannered portraits of saints, Aztec warriors and campesino heroes-was conceived by the owners of a Chicano art gallery, John and Joe Gonzales, who felt that community art might give the barrio the lift it needed. They persuaded local artists to provide the inspiration, merchants the paint, fire fighters the scaffolds and residents the creativity necessary to carry out the project. The results...
...hammers and crude huairas, or wind-draft casting furnaces, the Indian goldsmiths attained a level of technical skill that seems no less amazing today than it did in the 16th century, when that consummate metalworker Benvenuto Cellini is said to have spent weeks trying (and failing) to duplicate an Aztec fish of flexible silver plates inlaid with gold. The earlier goldworking cultures of Peru used hammered sheets as their basic material, but the Colombian artisans preferred to cast their images from gold. They were masters of the lost-wax technique, whereby a model of clay and charcoal was formed...
...seems that a group of men learned of a hoard of hidden gold. The cache was old Aztec gold, they insisted, 60% pure. Some of it was in the form of artifacts, the rest in gleaming gold bars. What is more, there were 100 tons of it in all. At the current rate of $120 per oz., their startling find would be worth nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. Trouble was, private individuals are not permitted to deal in gold without a license. The gold was buried on a military reservation in New Mexico, and the men (there...
...Lady Bird. "Lyndon never cut the strings between himself and old friends, and they've been marvelous in thinking of things to do. They know a bridge game is my favorite way to push a button and escape." Other friends have invited her to Mexico to dig for Aztec artifacts and given parties for her in Washington and New York. "You notice the extraordinary generosity of people," she says. Then she adds: "To be honest, there is disappointment too, when you realize that some friendships change because Lyndon is gone...
When the raft Acali (Aztec for house in the water) sets out across the Atlantic this month, it will be captained by Maria Bjornstram, 30, a lithe Swedish blonde. Six other key-command posts will also be held by women; all of the secondary positions will be filled by men. This strange odyssey, scheduled to begin in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and wind up in Yucatan, Mexico, has all of the earmarks of a frivolous publicity stunt. In fact, it is a serious experiment in role reversal and cultural conflict conceived by Santiago Genoves, a Mexican anthropologist...