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...laces and embroideries, the González clan in Paris was closer to the fashion industry than to the centers of the art world. González painted, mostly awkward imitations of Puvis de Chavannes. He drew, with ability. He turned his metalworker's hand to making hammered copper masks. This went on through the teens and '20s. In short, González took longer to peck his way out of the egg than any modern artist of comparable stature, and what cracked the shell and released him was his relationship to his fellow Spaniard in Paris, Picasso...
...centuries, in-the Spencerian style vigorously promoted in the mid-1800s by Platt Rogers Spencer, a scribe and teacher. All these cursive systems, of which the most familiar is probably the variation devised by another teacher, Austin Palmer, are full of accident-prone loops that only a 19th century copper engraver could properly master. Teachers get as discouraged as students...
...directly. The Brazilians have used Landsat to reroute segments of their trans-Amazon highway around swamps and other obstacles. Anyone can purchase the photographs. Even the U.S.S.R. and China have bought them, sometimes of each other's terrain. Indeed, the program has been so successful in spotting resources-copper deposits in Pakistan, tin in Bolivia-that some nations have condemned the orbital photography as economic spying...
...chair is bolted to the floor near the back of a 12-ft. by 18-ft. room. You sit on a seat of cracked rubber secured by rows of copper tacks. Your ankles are strapped into half-moon-shaped foot cuffs lined with canvas. A 2-in.-wide greasy leather belt with 28 buckle holes and worn grooves where it has been pulled very tight many times is secured around your waist just above the hips. A cool metal cone encircles your head. You are now only moments away from death...
Aside from export setbacks-prices for copper and cobalt dropped sharply-much of the loan money that flowed in was not spent wisely. Among Mobutu's development projects was a huge undertaking to dam the Zaïre River and to build a 1,100-mile-long power line to the Shaba copper-producing region at a total estimated cost of about $1 billion. Eight months after the power was finally turned on in 1981, the current was switched off. Shaba province happens to be self-sufficient in electricity. Says one Western diplomat: "If ever there was a white...