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...bermudas, knee-length culottes with upward-curving hems, knickers and quilted pantskirts. They are worn in daytime with silk or satin blouses, strictly tailored jackets, capes and large T-shaped wool ponchos. Many of Armani's favorite colors-shades of beige, brown, rust, taupe, gray, black, traces of cobalt blue-are subtly combined in a single ensemble. Favorite materials for pants and jackets are houndstooth checks, herringbone tweeds, velvet, flannel and, for evening, stiff satin. At night the baroque steps out: long silk crepe dresses, many strapless; spangled black tunics with full sleeves worn over black satin bermudas; tunics...
...Sinai Desert. The Sinai's relief is crazy," he says, "its density is fabulous." He simply had to paint it. But not on canvas. The artist's plan was to decorate the desert -specifically, the 5-sq.-mi. Plateau of Hallaoui-with patterns and fields of cobalt blue paint. "Blue," he explains, "because this color does not exist on the earth's surface." Despite impressive credentials -Verame had already festooned a dried riverbed in France and a mile of the Corsican coast-it took the artist two years to persuade authorities to let him undertake...
...Vliet's Water and Stone is a deceptively quiet collection of near, image-rich work, largely what might be described as observations ("In a Photograph by Brady") or apercus ("The Shade," "Girls on Saddleless Horses"). There is also, incidentally, some particularly chilling cancer imagery in various places ("...cobalt's/basilisk stare, the destroyed blood"; "the crab/under the heart, the thickening node"); and the death-soaked title work, a sort of Japanese No drama, is frighteningly memorable...
...developing new domestic sources. Since World War II the Government has maintained strategic stockpiles of 93 key materials, including tin, copper and titanium, for use in a national emergency. Some are critically low. Only 32,000 tons of titanium are stockpiled, far below the 130,000-ton goal. Cobalt reserves are 22,000 tons short of the 43,000-ton target...
...ground or under water because of ecological concerns or the higher profits that firms can earn abroad. Steep mining taxes in Minnesota, Montana and other states have also discouraged digging. Geologists have singled out 40,000 acres of federal land in Idaho as a possible source of cobalt. Yet last November the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee designated 2.2 million acres surrounding the site as a wilderness preserve, and banned any commercial activity that would disturb the elk, bighorn sheep and 188 other species that inhabit the area...