Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...process as this nation of 9,000,000. Even its geography helped by isolating it from its neighbors. Stretching more than 2,600 miles down the west coast of South America, Chile has the towering Andes to the east, the Pacific to the west, the parched and barren Atacama Desert to the north and, in the south, the craggy shores of Tierra del Fuego. Yet next week the Chilean Congress will confront a dilemma that no republican legislature has ever faced: whether or not to allow a freely elected Marxist to become President of the country. Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens...
Strenuous Responsibility. "Clean" is the adjective Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings constantly invite: clean as a bone, as a desert rock, as a haiku. She refutes the idea that discipline is masculine. O'Keeffe may, in a special sense, be the most aristocratic artist America has yet produced. This quality has nothing to do with a grand manner. It lies in its antithesis: her aloofness and precision, her refusal to make any gesture for the sake of effect. Every work in this show, from the earliest calligraphic wash drawings to the recent ones, like Road Past...
...sense, her paintings are like the desert itself, where there is no apparent middle ground: everything is either far or near, held in a hallucinatory clarity. In O'Keeffe's tender, expanded details of Jimson weed, desert roses, shingles and pebbles, a generation used to psychedelics will recognize a part of its own experience-reality declaring its inexhaustible fullness. Perhaps it is the concentration of such images, with their shifts of scale and razor-sharp exactitude, that leads some viewers to compare them to Surrealism. But surrealist imagery is, almost by definition, fantastic, whereas O'Keeffe...
...suddenly she was dead. Her body, it was true, could not be found, but her secretary said she had last seen Aimee swimming out to sea at Ocean Park, Calif. The faithful mourned hysterically. Then one day word came from Douglas, Ariz., that Aimee had staggered out of the desert babbling about being kidnaped and held for $500,000 ransom...
...police were puzzled. If Aimee had wandered for hours in the desert, how come her shoes were hardly scuffed? Other questions arose. Why had the radioman at the temple disappeared at almost the same time Aimee had? And who was that thick-ankled woman who had spent ten days with him in a vine-covered cottage at Carmel? The scandal broke in six-inch headlines, and Aimee, her mother and the radioman were held for trial on conspiracy charges; but after eight months of priceless worldwide publicity, "a certain person of influence" was bought off for $6,000, according...