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...been for the rumblings of a nearby volcano. For the past five years it has spewed ash over Mount Ampato, melting its snowcap and causing the ground to shift. The movement caused Juanita's ceremonial platform to collapse, and she literally tumbled off. Zarate had to rappel down a ravine to retrieve gold and silver statues, festooned with feathers, that were part of the traditional offering to the gods. Reinhard had scaled dozens of Andean peaks over the past 15 years searching for just such a treasure. Now he was worried that further underground movement on Mount Ampato might propel...
Eventually, last Wednesday, 52 members of fire-fighting units based in Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Oregon assembled in Glenwood Springs to put out the Storm King nuisance. They represented their risky profession's nomadic elite: smoke jumpers, who parachute out of airplanes onto wildfire sites; helitacks, who rappel from ropes and hop out of helicopters; and hotshots, the self-described "ground pounders," the infantry shock troops in the West's annual summer wars against unbridled conflagrations...
...this diffuse movement has been dismissed with the name given it by Jean Cocteau: le rappel a l'ordre, the call to order. The custom has been to see it as a hiatus in the forward drive of modernism -- at best a faltering of energy, and at worst an Arcadian sham, a rehearsal for the coarse, repressive state art of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. This show is the first to take an inquisitive and fair-minded look at it. The curators, Elizabeth Cowling of Edinburgh University and Jennifer Mundy of the Tate, have done an admirably lucid job of presenting...
...public of admiring consumers, the cultivated gratin of Europe, people who needed a modern Rubens. Moreover, there had been a general recoil from extreme avant-garde art, on principle, after 1918. What seemed necessary was reconstruction, not more iconoclasm, or, in the words of Jean Cocteau, a rappel à l'ordre (call to order), which would place art under the normalizing sway of classical nostalgia. "Revolutionary" art simply did not look good around the 16th Arrondissement after October...
...name is Jimmy, and he is a victim of cerebral palsy. Then there is Suzanne, a bright 16-year-old deaf girl filmed as she experiments with test tubes in a chemistry lab and learns how to rappel on a tree in an outdoor class. Suzanne's speech, which sounds to the untrained ear like a record played at the wrong speed, requires dubbing on the screen. And there's Lisa, a severely retarded eight-year-old with multiple handicaps. For her, just learning to eat with a spoon is a major educational triumph...