Word: incas
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...severity to the rear wall of the stage. Suddenly, it begins to open like secret paneling. Triangular sections peel back, and tongues of gold lick the surrounding dark. In the center of the blazing disk, like a jeweled idol released from a total eclipse, stands the sun god, the Inca, immutable, glorious, incandescent. In another scene, bitter light stipples the Spanish soldiers' helmets and swords as they pantomime their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes, and the men seem wearily stitched into their grey-hued armor as if they had enlisted for eternity. Spookily, stylized Peruvian masks glare, peer...
...dramatic chronicle of the encounter of the aging conquistador Francisco Pizarro and the young Inca emperor Atahuallpa, however, the play is mechanical, preachy, largely unaffecting and sometimes silly. Ancient Mariner style, Shaffer supplies his own albatross in the form of a narrator, always an ill omen that the drama will be becalmed. He harangues the listener on the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church and the evils of war and plunder. His ultimate theme is that God is dead and life lacks meaning. Royal Hunt is a sort of Tiny Alice shorn of obscurantism and sent to Inca land...
...program involves a desert-irrigation network of heroic proportions. Patterned on the old Inca aqueducts of 500 years ago, it will shift water from the Atlantic side of the Andes to Peru's parched coastal lowlands by diverting the course of three rivers through mountain tunnels. Last week on the northern coast, engineers were at work on a project to channel water from the Chotano River through ten miles of tunnels down to a reservoir near Chiclayo, where 200,000 desert acres will go into production...
Belaúnde's grand design is to colonize the montana by means of a 20th century version of the Inca highway network that interconnected the old empire. It will be a 3,500-mile span, hugging the eastern slopes of the Andes and connecting with access roads pushing up from Peru's west coast. Belaúnde's engineers are already pushing penetration routes from the coastal town of Pisco to the mountain town of Ayacucho, from Nazca into Cuzco, from Puno down the rugged eastern slope of the Andes into the southern montana. Estimated cost...
...town of Chimbote, the population has exploded from 5,000 to 150,000 in the past 20 years. New taxis clog the city's streets, and neon signs wink brightly all night; hi-fi shops blare out cha chas; Indian mopsters sip beer and lethal-looking, yellow-green "Inca Kolas" and fill up vacant walls with "Vivan los Beatles...