Word: minerally
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...sources have told the AP that the Nicaraguan Refugee Fund was started in mid-1984 through a secret agreement between the Miner and Fraser Public Affairs Inc. and the Contras' Washington-based corporate arm, the Nicaraguan Development Council...
Letters from Edie Fraser, Miner and Fraser president, to North, suggest that he participated in detailed decisions about the fund...
...just now . . . I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible -- and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does." Work and seriousness: this, not the vulgar image of the madman issuing orgasmic squirts of yellow and blue at the dictation of his lunacy, is the real Van Gogh of Saint-Remy and Auvers...
...exegete to realize that it is to her that his work insistently refers -- those broad- backed, maternal figures, like sentinels, their bodies expanded into bosses and swells that suggest an infant's apprehension of the breast, or hollowed into womblike cavities. The fundamental experience of work that every miner's boy knew about -- that of going down into a cramped, cold and dangerous darkness to hew at rock -- was transcended in Moore's work as a man: still cutting stone, but in the light, and in the soothing precinct of his mother's remembered body. What anxiety was to Giacometti...
...unexploded bombs have already been safely disposed of, do the tensions seem to fade. There outsiders and locals--whites, blacks, Asians and Indians from the nearby Schurz reservation --work in syncopated drudgery. "They're a pretty nice bunch of guys," says Mike Cook, 31, an out-of-work miner from Tombstone, Ariz., who lives with his wife and four kids in a car to save money. Hoisting a 40-lb. piece of metal, he adds, "You have to be pretty crazy to be a scraphog...