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...topography still resembles that of a shallow sea bottom, raised at the edges by a saucer-rim of mountains, with few barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen and dwarf shrub; the dense forest zone, or the taiga, where arctic birches sprout beside palm trees; the steppe, a black earth meadowland which, when properly farmed, is among the most productive soils in the world; and farthest south, the deserts. In this overwhelming setting, Russia made its way much...
...sense of whimsy. His people may be half bird; he invents preposterous musical instruments, designs costumes and headdresses that are pure fancy. His ideas come from almost anywhere-from the Old Testament, from Rabelais, from the memory of a statue of Napoleon (see color) or of a dwarf back in Czernowitz with a large head. "All I know is that when the time comes, the idea is there. It comes from my stomach, from my blood. And I never ask my blood...
What seems mere improvisation is a careful and wholly Rederish sense of how each part of a sculpture should balance and play against the others. The Dwarf is not just a bittersweet sculpture of a sadly deformed human being: the strings of the cat's cradle start the viewer's eye on its voyage; the great hands and arms fix the circumference of the block, which is thus both open and closed at the same time. In Aaron, which is 8 ft. high, the shafts around the tepee-like tabernacle are balanced and continued by the symbols...
...more Britain's relative power in world affairs ebbed, the more Britain seemed afraid that her own prideful identity might be lost in a vast new European nation. Stretching from the Atlantic to the Iron Curtain, from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean littoral, a united Europe would dwarf Russia in the world's industrial hierarchy. Its literate, highly skilled peoples would outnumber those of the U.S. by many millions...
...several schemes were suggested to keep the water away from Ramses' memorial. One faction wanted to cover the temple with a watertight dome, another to protect it with a curving cofferdam. Both dome and cofferdam could be built, but they would be difficult to maintain and would dwarf the temple. The most attractive scheme, conceived by Italian Archaeologist Piero Gazzola, was to cut the whole temple free of the surrounding rock and lift it with 308 hydraulic jacks to a new place above the water. This daring proposal was accepted by the Egyptian government, which will contribute $10 million...