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...time when the Bahamas and the rest of the West Indies are suffering from creeping civilization -even on the best powder beaches, people no longer lie on the sand but on chaise longues, swim not in the ocean but in shoreside swimming pools, at night prefer the soft mechanical thunder of the air conditioner to the sound of the tropical breeze through the palms-Burke offers the uncertain pleasure of putting the escapist back in touch with elemental nature...
...seriously. He had, after all, once taken a fully clad dip in Bobby Kennedy's Hickory Hill pool, and he was always doing things like holding press conferences in Bermuda shorts or showing up for tennis at the Newport Casino clothed in gorgeous hues of canary yellow and powder blue instead of the traditional white. Even when he quit gagging, his audience sometimes kept on laughing. Once, after his usual quota of jokes, he told his listeners that he wanted to discuss education in a serious, nonpolitical vein. The audience roared, and Pierre later wondered exasperatedly, "What...
Eternal Luster. In a devout send-off for the idol of Avalokiteshvara, Lord of Compassion (see opposite page), Nepalese monks sprinkled it with holy vermilion powder and packed it in flowers before sending it off to New York. The cast bronze has swelling contours that are not obscured by excessive ornamentation, with as much easy stylization and graceful gesture as the sculpted saints of the contemporary Gothic in Europe. Avalokiteshvara has one advantage to delight a sculptor: he comes in 108 different incarnations. Nepalese sculptors were equally adept at hammering out fully rounded copper-gilt figures from inside. Fond...
Light in the Cupola. Russell and his 18-man team of homily-grits Southerners were not in the least concerned about the slow progress of the civil rights bill. But others were, and against a lowering backdrop of powder-keg Negro restiveness and growing white alarm, a sense of urgency has begun to pervade even the drowsy chamber...
Frit is made from paper-thin sheets of glass that are broken up by vibration, then placed in spinning drums filled with balls, where the glass is pulverized into powder. The use of frit-the name is unaccountably derived from the French frit, or fried-is an ancient art. The Egyptians excelled in making jewelry ornamented with frit, and the British Museum owns a fritted warrior's shield more than 1,000 years old. Now that the art has become a thriving modern industry, there are plenty of frit makers. Ferro has managed to outsell all of them...