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...authorites sent a helicopter to search the mountain, guided by Carpentier on his cell phone...
...subject matter as in studiously quoted poses and meticulously conscious structures. His power of organization was awesome; his spread of quotation, wide. What caused the individual citations to hang together, though, was his eye for nature. Nowhere is this clearer than in his huge composition of 1937, The Mountain. Every one of the figures on this plateau of the Bernese Oberland is quoted from somewhere else--the girl lying down in the foreground comes from a Poussin, and so on. The green-capped rocks are real, but they are also inspired by Courbet's landscapes. But what so lifts...
Transfer those opposites to a man, and there's old Bill-- good as gold, one day a week. Like the Rev. Jesse Jackson, like Harlem's former Congressman, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., like Gabriel Grimes, the preacher father in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, he sins and repents, and then comes Monday...
...sounds ideal?get out of Taipei, see the mountains, spend a few days in the fresh air. What's the catch? As it turns out, there is one, an annoying anachronism left over from the martial law era when the mountains were thought to be crawling with communists. The government requires hikers to have mountain permits, which in turn necessitates a group of three and a guide. Changes are afoot, but the rusty wheels of bureaucracy still turn slowly. Call the Taiwan Tourism Bureau Hotline for information: (88-62) 2717-3737. Be sure to ask about current conditions; typhoons...
Having grown up on India's stormy southeastern coast, I have experienced some of Nature's terrifying moods. But not even a full-blown tropical cyclone can reduce a city of brick, stone and mortar into a mountain of rubble. An earthquake is especially terrifying because it shakes our most fundamental belief, that the ground beneath us is solid. Although I have volunteered to help in the relief effort, I'm truly, deeply, frightened?and will remain so for the duration as aftershocks, at least six a day, rumble underfoot. These are mostly mild, 3.5 to 4.5 on the Richter...