Word: copperizing
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WHEN MY FAMILY made the pilgrimage north last summer, we stayed in the Chateau Frontenac, the colossal hotel Fantasy land of the Canadian town. It sits high atop a hill, majestic, with layer on layer of green copper spires rising toward the sky. It's world-renowned--any self-respecting tourbook will tell you that...
...course, some purists may feel that something isn't truly organic unless it looks like pond sludge. Never fear. The Body Shop also carries rough-hewn products like Henna Cream Shampoo, which looks like a jar of copper-colored vaseline mixed with mud, because it contains no artificial colors or color stabilizers. The "Men's Rhassoul Mud Soap" resembles a small cement brick. For women, there's "Wheatscrub Soap", made of wheatgerm and cinnamon, which is supposed to "exfoliate" your skin, and a milk bath that contains oats and avocado oil. Apparently the Body Shop doesn't know the inside...
...More than five years after his release, the Roman Catholic priest can still vividly remember the cruel games his captors would play, spinning him around and around, then laughing when, dizzy and disoriented, he would bump into things. One of the most searing moments came when a man in copper-tipped cowboy boots stood on Jenco's head. "I am not an insect!" Jenco cried out. "I am a person of worth...
...traditionally abounds, brush off the gloomy predictions. They point to unique underlying strengths such as the nine- campus, Nobel-rich University of California, which some educators think may be the best public university in the world; the unsung incorruptibility of most of the state's civil servants; the magic copper light that descends on mile-wide beaches at sunset; even the savage majesty of streaming headlights on the freeways on a clear night. Finally, they single out what Mark Davis, an aide to Governor Pete Wilson, extols as "a new pioneer spirit" among the waves of recent foreign immigrants that...
...came to independence in the 1960s, few fared worse than the former Belgian Congo, now known as Zaire. The country endured army mutinies, civil wars, invasions and, through it all, 26 years of iron rule by President Mobutu Sese Seko. In due course, thanks in part to Zaire's copper wealth, Mobutu amassed billions of dollars, but he always took care to keep the army on his side -- until last week...