Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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History is full of such expensive errors, of cities and civilizations brought low because their leaders failed to exercise even ordinary foresight. Any good agronomist, for example, could have predicted that overplanting of semiarid land would lead to the vast Midwestern dust bowls of the '30s. Anybody with ordinary intelligence could have discerned in the '50s the potential for violence that resulted in the black explosions of the '60s. No disaster, however, has been more visible from a distance-or caught people more off guard-than the energy crisis. The failure to head it off, despite loud...
...Michelangelo. His rich colors, massive compositions and skill at texture and light have made the brooding and heroic moments he painted almost as memorable as the celebrated stories he chose to illustrate. Wyeth fanciers who can't get enough of the great man's work by dusting off their old books or peering over their children's shoulders should try this fine volume, which lovingly reproduces hundreds of Wyeth's pictures, briefly recounts his life, and concludes with a 127-page bibliography of books, periodicals, dust jackets, postcards, newspapers, prints and folios that carried illustrations...
...peaks of the volcanoes unless it's early morning, for then the sky is not yet preparing its afternoon torrent. So it's best not to arrive after noon, unless you're wearing a sweater or two and a raincoat, and boots for the thick mud that dries to dust again over night. If you arrive in August, the pink and white plastic streamers from the July first saint's day fiesta still flicker against the sky above the hard, dusty, goat-trodden roads...
...with its thick plastic windows that flick open and closed and its concrete floor. Brought in from the state capital, it stands next to the ghost of the old adobe school. And it's here that the women, veiled and scrubbed and in their city shoes, stand in the dust outside the brick church next door with its store-bought statuary and its school benches, and wait for the padre to arrive. And it's here, also, that the two sides of town meet at the slight ridge on which the schools and church sit. So it's here that...
...Margorito or his neighbor moves from one maguey plant to the next, extracting the sweet agua miel that soon ferments into pulche, an alcoholic drink. Or, later, you pass the very small children, laden with Pepsi bottles and tortillas for their fathers' early lunch, scampering through the dust...