Word: phenix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatize the gas crunch, the Digger agreed to be buried at Mack's Mobile Homes lot on Highway 280 in Phenix City, Ala. "I'm not coming up till gas prices come down," said Digger. Then, wearing a T shirt and pajama bottoms, he climbed into his temporary coffin (6 ft. long and 32 in. wide and high, with a septic tank below and a viewing periscope above that doubled as a dumbwaiter for Digger's food). He was covered by 6 ft. of earth and 4 in. of concrete. Two telephones, a radio and a television...
...atom an issue in next March's elections, charges that the policy of headlong nuclear expansion was reckless, "launched like a railroad engine at 400 kilometers an hour." In August, some 30,000 protesters tried to slow the train down by staging a noisy demonstration at Super Phenix, the big French plutonium breeder reactor east of Lyon. Now there is concern about a new element in the government's aggressive program. It is a plan to help pay for the country's nuclear expansion by making France a major dealer in that growing international commodity, "spent" atomic...
...messages behind Chagall's prints are elusive--inevitable in abstract art--and at times one even wonders whether or not the artist is playing a huge joke, saying: Here is a man, ('L'Artiste Phenix) with the profile of the Emperor Constantine attached to a horse's head--now what do you make of that? Yet, beneath the surface of his painted world, seemingly defying nature as the sciences explain it, there is a vitality that belies the cavalier neglect of "realistic" technique. The "Bacchante" dancing beneath a red rainbow may be a figment of Chagall's imagination...