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...rising, alive; perched on top of this tectonic tumult, the structures of civilization seem to teeter. The schools and supermarkets are surrounded, as often as not, by fresh-dug earth, and what's not being built is being shored up or razed. Just off Highway 50 the settlement of Frenchman--once home to a diner, a gas station and a motel--was purchased by the Navy several years ago and leveled to make a bombing range...
...poured that energy into inventing the aqualung, building the first manned undersea colonies, and floating for more than 40 years over the sea floor in The Calypso, a refitted mine-sweeper from which Cousteau shot the first color footage of life in the deep. For the wiry, red-capped Frenchman, exploring every nook and cranny of every ocean on the globe for such hugely popular television series as "The Underwater World of Jacques Cousteau" came as easily as love at first sight. "When you dive, you begin to feel that you're an angel," he explained in a recent interview...
None of these is uniquely American. All take on a peculiarly American cast. "What, then," asked a visiting Frenchman, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, back in the 1780s, "is this American, this new man?" The things and images in these pages represent some of the ways in which Americans themselves have created their partial and sometimes contradictory answers to that riddle...
Forget about sheep: cloning is as old as mankind--according to the Raelian Movement, which claims 35,000 members. Raelians believe extraterrestrials called Elohim cloned humans and in 1973 contacted Rael, a Frenchman whose mother was inseminated by aliens. Rael now teaches a sensual technique designed to inspire awareness of infinity. Raelians hope to build an embassy in Jerusalem to signal humanity's readiness to welcome the Elohim...
...movement, such as it was, had only one (relatively) heavyweight American in its membership, the painter, photographer and objectmaker Man Ray. Its spirit was best exemplified by two foreign artists who enriched the New York scene by visiting it--the Frenchman Marcel Duchamp and the French-Cuban Francis Picabia. Their impact goes back to the far-famed Armory Show of modern art, held in 1913, which first gave a mass American audience a chance to see modernism...