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...Burgos trial of Basque nationalists, Juan Carlos. 33, was hurriedly summoned to appear at Franco's side, but he always withdrew quickly into the shadows. In fact, his reactions were so carefully controlled that in some quarters even in Spain he came to be known as "the papier-mâché prince...
...ritual was staged again and again a decade ago. The stadium would fill with cheering Africans. The band would play a tattoo. Schoolchildren would scramble forward to slay papier-mâché dragons representing poverty, ignorance and disease. Fireworks would ignite the southern sky. At midnight a throaty cheer of "Uhuru!" (Swahili for "freedom") or "Kwacha!" ("dawn" in Bemba and Nyanja) would shake the ground as the flag of the colonial power was lowered and the colors of the new nation raised...
Padlocked Exits. The Cinq-Sept was a pyromaniac's dream. On the balcony overlooking the dance floor, alcoves resembling grottoes were fashioned from papier-mache. Overhanging the room was an explosively inflammable polyurethane ceiling on which a psychedelic light show was played. Illegal one-way turnstiles, with floor-to-ceiling bars surrounded by caging, were the only entrances to the windowless club. Three of the four emergency exits were padlocked to keep out those without tickets who were eager to hear The Storm, a new rock group from Paris. "I admit that the turnstiles ultimately made the club...
Both he and Ron Papier, the other organizer, attracted some interest in touch football and soccer, but it is not yet clear if there will be enough interested men to field a team. There are about 300 men living at Radcliffe...
Recently, anti-Brazilian protesters in Paris displayed a papier-mâché Christ figure with a tube down its throat and wires attached to parts of its body...