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Former commissioner MacMillan contends that Panama has badly neglected the military bases, ports and other facilities that have been placed in its charge, and shows reporters photos of abandoned Panama Railroad cars overgrown with grass and tropical vines. The railroad was handed over to Panama in 1979, and after falling into disuse, is now being privatized by a Kansas City, Mo., firm...
...savoring his childhood. There is the clapboard house where he lived until he was 12. Here is the elementary school. "Had my first dance with a girl there," he says. The reverie ends when Ball walks to the end of a pier where the sulfur smell of marsh grass rises, as rank as the tale he unspools. An estimated 40% of American slaves arrived first at this spot. Confused, terrified, usually sick, they spent two weeks quarantined in "pest houses" or onboard ship. Those who got better sailed on to Charleston and bondage. Those who didn't turned the island...
...grass-roots community activists like Charney, the communication and momentum that comes from a citywide group is productive...
Meanwhile, the anti-environmental forces have been investing heavily in the political arena with lobbyists, fundraising, public relations and creative initiatives called "astro-turf," which are designed to make it look as though there is a grass roots movement to repeal environmental protections. These interest groups, usually but not always led by a trade group, are not standing apart from the political process. Indeed they are often creatively inventing it as they go along...
...culminating achievement, the Ocean Park series, forming in a small, early landscape like Seawall, 1957. First, the clear marine light that seems to bathe all the forms, whether sharply cut (the tawny beach and wedges of black shadow on the left) or vaguer (the tract of scribbled green grass on the right). Second, Diebenkorn's decisiveness about tonal structure and the way sharp contrast can be used both to hollow out the space of the painting and to create a firm, flat pattern. And third, a breezy lyricism of feeling that was especially Diebenkorn's, an exhilaration at the material...