Word: machu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Incas by Jacques Soustelle (Viking; unpaged; $35) evokes the grandeur of the vanished Inca empire and explains why a people who never used the wheel built such a road network. Hans Silvester's striking photographs capture the haunting beauty of sites like the ruined city of Machu Picchu, the sculptured faces of present-day Andeans and the ageless wonder of the paved Inca roads. Between them, Soustelle and Silvester manage to show why even the Spanish, who conquered the land of the haughty llama and high-soaring condor, were unable to change...
...aficionado for the past 15 years, sampled LSD, and taken some snorts of cocaine. None of that is very unusual, especially in high-living Hollywood circles. Jack evidently can handle it; several friends speak of his basically controlled, "non-addictive personality." His long-standing romantic relationships (with Model Mimi Machu, with Singer Michelle Phillips) ended stormily, with Nicholson torn for weeks between fury and depression. But the serious love affairs were also punctuated by bursts of inconstancy, and he likes to boast about them. "Jesus," he said to one friend about a high-paid fashion model who was flying...