Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city of 100,000, at that time was a town of scarcely 15,000 people sporting only four blocks of paved streets, no sewage system, no streetlighting, no radio nor telephones. Liberia's annual budget came to $750,000, and government departments were quartered in shabby, corrugated-metal reproductions of Southern U.S. ante-bellum mansions. An Americo-Liberian elite, descendants of the American slaves who declared Liberia independent in 1847,* was in power, ruling with little regard for the tribal people of the bush, whom they called aborigines. The economy was dominated by the Firestone company, whose rubber plantations...
...fragment of metal that reportedly fell to earth in 1957 when a UFO exploded in the air above the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, was sent to a Washington laboratory for analysis. It had been an article of faith among many saucer believers that the fragment consisted of magnesium more pure than any ever made by man. The lab tests, said the report, suggested an earthly origin; the fragment contained more impurities than commercially produced magnesium...
...Indians who flourished in Latin America before Columbus, gold was absolutely sacred. The Aztecs of Central Mexico called it "teocuit latl," (the excrement of the gods). The Incas of Peru thought of it as the "sweat of the sun." The metal was so plentiful and easy to work that the pre-Columbian Indians used it to make earrings, pendants, funerary masks, drinking vessels, furniture, and even entire artificial gardens. In fact, they used the gold they loved so much for practically everything but money; for that, they chose humbler commodities like beans...
Innocent Beauty. Selected by Allen Wardwell, 33, curator of primitive arts at the Art Institute, the comprehensive exhibit shows how the ancient Indian goldsmiths ground, hammered and cast the precious metal into highly stylized objects. Though the innocent beauty of the pieces was lost on the greedy conquistadores, it has intrigued modern artists such as Lipchitz, Moore, Klee, Brancusi and Dubuffet...
...snakes, frogs and alligators, as well as human faces and figures, provided the artisans with their motifs. The goldsmiths executed them with increasing sophistication. The very first of them, the Chavín Indians of Peru, for example, had only crude stone tools with which to beat the pure metal into shape...