Word: blaenau
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...election was a disaster for Labor, which suffered its most stinging defeat since 1918. Michael Foot, 69, the donnish, white-haired historian and critic who would have become Prime Minister had Labor won, held on to his parliamentary seat at Blaenau Gwent in Wales, but is expected to resign soon as Labor's leader...
...point is Sculptor David Nash, whose work belongs in the general category of land art but is infused by a wit and sweetness usually absent from that genre. Nash lives in what must be the most sodden provincial seclusion the British Isles can offer-the Welsh village of Blaenau Ffestiniog, near which, 40 years ago, the National Gallery secreted its paintings to save them from the blitz. Nash assembles his sculptures from rough tree branches, trunks and slate. His projects include a sculpture of growing trees, topiarized into the form of a dome, a sylvan abstraction that will take...
...friends as Rembrandt's Woman Bathing, Rubens' Judgment of Paris and Titian's Christ and Mary Magdalene. These and 47 other choice paintings were the first of the National Gallery's treasures to be returned to London from the 300-ft.-deep mountain caves near Blaenau Festiniog, Wales, where they had been stored since the blitz. What with shortages of transport, return of the entire collection will take about three months...
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