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...important because it exposed the entire political nature of the process" of trying to erect the power plant, Grady said...
...PLAIN, solid-thinking, no-nonsense Swiss engineer visits a drab, small-town cafe to make a speech in his campaign for the Swiss parliament. He stands erect at the podium with all of his bourgeois respectability, smoothly articulating his planned platitudes to a carefully selected, receptive audience. Midway through his speech the moderator calls for a break so that the listeners can refresh themselves with mugs of beer--on the house, of course. From behind the counter emerges a waitress carrying a tray of refreshments, and a striking entrance it is: tall and slender, with long black hair and deep...
...result was a conversion whose rapidity made St. Paul's fall from horseback on the road to Damascus look positively sluggish. Suddenly the issue was how to make sculpture that carried no association whatever with the human figure (which even David Smith's erect steel totems habitually do): "I wanted to make sculpture that was real, not metaphoric. I didn't want to make models of people." The pedestal, Caro argued to himself, puts a frame round the meaning of any sculpture. "A base says, 'This is the limit of the sculpture's world...
...ability to govern and frightened by the country's runaway inflation, U.S. multinational corporations have never been willing to risk large amounts of capital in Viet Nam-even though the Saigon government set up the Industrial Development Bank to solicit foreign investment and announced grandiose plans to erect industrial parks, hotels with convention centers and even a Vietnamese Disneyland...
Each Latin-American nation has its own name for the urban poor--Argentina has its villas miserias, Brazil its favelas. Mexico its colonias proletarias. In Managua, the poor are called "parachutists," because so many of them have "landed" on unoccupied land to erect their shacks and begin the continual search for work that Iured them from the countryside. The wave of migration began about 1950 and has continued to the present; the poor, 70 per cent of them outside the capital, now constitute fully one-half of Managua's 400,000 population...