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...Pigafetta's chronicle of Magellan's explorations, for instance. His materials are a parade of incongruities -neon tubes and stuffed anacondas, old dinghies and melting ice, dry leaves and wild-dog skins, plastic roses, canoes made of rusty wire, maps that turn into masks, and drums, beads, burlap...
...away, the plane sat motionless; the only sound was the static of radio chatter emanating from people who watched from other vantage points near by. Then three rented vans, a Mercedes sedan, a Chevrolet station wagon and a Ford van pulled up to the plane, and the unloading of burlap bales of highly prized Colombian marijuana began. Two hours later, with half the plane's cargo removed, the police charged from the bushes, acting so quickly that they captured without a struggle all the handlers, aircraft personnel and two lookouts, a total of eleven...
...merchant's self-esteem when brought mint tea and invited to inspect carpets and bolts of silk in a Moroccan bazaar. But the rotting garbage in the streets is probably more typical of the real East. And to queries about the nature of those mysterious blue crystals in the burlap sack, the reply, translated, will be: "Detergent...
...civic obligation. Hospitality was evangelical in its fervor. Kansas Citians greeted arriving Republicans, journalists and celebrities with simulated parchment scrolls entitling "the Bearer to see Missouri in all its Grandeur" and signed by Republican Governor Christopher Bond. To the 4,518 delegates and alternates, merchants and town leaders contributed burlap tote bags stuffed with gifts and guidebooks and stamped with elephants encircled by large hearts (symbolizing, naturally, the nation's heartland...
...town. The new 17,000-seat, $23.2 million Kemper Arena, where the Republicans will gather, is set like a snow-white spaceship in the bottoms along the Missouri, just next to the decaying old stockyards. Delegates heading for the hall will encounter such scenery as the Columbia Burlap Co. and the Sweet Lassy Feed Co. If the Republicans want to browse near by during a convention break, they will have to settle for Farm World, a shop specializing in serums, wormers and insecticides, or the Kansas City Vaccine Co., which sells animal vaccines and veterinarians' instruments. The best restaurant...