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...since they toppled into the jungle. But most of Mexico's ancient art is less monumental and more familiar: everyday household utensils and ritual objects decorated with leaves and tendrils; pots, statuary, and tools in the shape of animals; terra-cotta fertility idols whose swollen thighs and exaggerated pubic regions are pocket guarantees of good crops. Perhaps the highest point of pre-conquest art-and the most exciting part of the Los Angeles show-was the painted room of the temple at Bonampak, a pyramid whose corbel vaults-arches made by stepping stones inward-display 8th century Mayan frescoes...
...base of the skull, with laceration of the fornix cerebri (white fibers connecting the brain's hemispheres); contusion of the frontal and temporal lobes; severe shock; fracture of nine ribs; pneumothorax (air in the pleural space around the lungs); hemothorax (blood in the same space); rupture of the pubic bone junction; fractures of the pubic, hip and haunch bones, and of the head of the left thigh bone; severe contusions of abdominal organs; rupture of the urinary bladder; paralysis of both arms and both legs; gradual failing of circulation, and gradual failing of breathing, apparently from brain damage...
...incident sets a standard that the rest of this bedpan farce from Britain rarely tries to rise above. The picture begins with a pubic shave, continues with a ceremony involving a suppository, settles down to some steady vomiting, wakes up with a scene full of toilet-paper streamers...
...Those once romantic goddesses, the local states-Britain, Nicaragua, the United States, Israel, and the other ten dozen of them-will still be on the map, because they will still have local jobs of work to do, such as minding and mending the drains and administering other local pubic utilities. But the romance will have gone out of them . . . Ubiquitous but non-monopolistic religious associations will, I believe, be the standard type of ommunity in our Atomic Age. "If this forecast proves correct...
...Several would
have been willing to marry for the sake of having children, but could
not bear the thought of heterosexual intercourse.