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...attempt in the San Diego exurb of Escondido to give a few impoverished families homes, all the more heartening. The project shows that low-income housing need not be dreary or demeaning: this is a lively and dignified piece of tightly woven architecture. Architects Christine Killory and her partner, Chilean-born Rene Davids, have used as their central idea a traditional Latin American form: each two- and three-bedroom unit is built around a small internal patio, and all 13 are arrayed around a central plaza and playground...
...common sense seem a stroke of genius, a thing of beauty. Her equipoise will be tested as she inhabits a nation wracked by war in Ariel Dorfman's The Other Side (opening Dec. 6 at New York's Manhattan Theatre Club). It's one of three plays by the Chilean author (Death and the Maiden) to premiere this season. Purgatorio opens in Seattle in October, Picasso's Closet in Washington in June...
Radio reporters immediately began broadcasting the news. On the floor of the U.N. conference, a Chilean delegate waved an extra edition of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with the screaming headline NAZIS QUIT. The delegates burst into applause. Cheering crowds gathered in the streets of New York City and Chicago. An hour and a half later, President Truman called in reporters and announced that the story was untrue...
...Amethyst is locally prized for its supposed healing properties (it's common to find chunks of it lying in homes to counter bad luck). Malachite is used in popular fashion accessories, worn by Chilean women in bracelets and anklets as they sashay down the Parque Arauco Mall. But lapis, the most well-known Chilean stone, is the visitors' favorite. Expect to pay $100 for a choker necklace and earrings, $200 for a longer chain, and $600 for a pair of candlesticks...
...word of caution: Chilean lapis may contain veins of chalk, which lower the quality. Some shopkeepers artfully cover up these imperfections with blue paint, so carry around a bottle of thinner and ask if you can test the gems to see if the colors run?shopkeepers will quickly stop trying to sell you fakes. Alternatively, confine your gem hunting to widely known establishments like these...