Word: columbianization
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...Columbian rammed the ball back toward the goal, and Yehia kicked it in to tie the game...
...Caan and Katharine Ross walk woodenly through theirs. Estelle Winwood makes an all-too-brief appearance as a nutty ailurophile. About the only fun in Games is the eye-beguiling set-supposedly a Manhattan brownstone at 11 East 64th Street, equipped with penny-arcade machines, fun-house mirrors, pre-Columbian sculpture, a pearl-inlaid bed, and what must be the most blood-drenched elevator between Fifth and Madison...
Died. William Philip Spratling, 66, reviver of Mexico's Taxco silver crafts, a New York-born architect-artist who came across the impoverished, pre-Columbian silver-mining town 70 miles southwest of Mexico City in 1933, stayed on to learn the metalcraft from the few Indian artisans remaining, soon opened his own shop, and spent the rest of his life building the village into a major tourist attraction and its silver-smithies into a business employing 2,950 people; of injuries when his car crashed into an embankment; near Taxco...
...whose academic indoctrination was interrupted by World War II. They work as book illustrators or in publishing houses. Their paintings are frequently primitive, but often by design as well as accident, since many of them are familiar with the work of French Brutalist Jean Dubuffet and Mexican pre-Columbian art. Above all, they hark back to the powerful, stylized tradition of Russian icon painting that flourished between the 15th and 17th centuries...
...Vivant on cello: Cool, detached, debonair, he exudes calm assurance-and amore. Convinced that the sound of his cello is a mating call, he is a dedicated lady killer and a divorcee. Besides women, he collects Chinese jade and pre-Columbian...