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...Another chapter entitled “Brumidi’s Frescoes and Film Noir” seems similarly detached. Constantino Brumidi was an Italian artist who attempted to overthrow the pope in the early 1850s. He went into exile in the United States and designed patriotic murals at the Capitol??using a “real fresco” technique “in which paint is applied to [a] wet surface.” What relevance does “real fresco” have to this book? After seven pages on Brumidi, Morrow unconvincingly concludes...
Thirty-three people were killed in a shoot-out with army officers in front of the presidential palace. Fourteen more were killed when a mob of angry demonstrators set fire to a gas station. When 30,000 fervent demonstrators descended on the Bolivian capitol??which, in a stroke of tragic irony, is named La paz (“The peace”)—they came with a list of 72 demands on president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. The first demand was for him to leave office...
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