Word: rico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tells stories of mutilation and decay. Human and animal forms writhe in agony, ravaged, burning, sometimes headless creatures caught, on canvas and in sculpture, in their final tortured moments. No artist since Goya has been more preoccupied with the portrayal of death than Rico Lebrun. To him, the exploration of mortality is a means of confrontation, and his expressions of "the fright of human flesh" are an attempt to come to terms with the fate of man. And these days, Lebrun is engaged in a private confrontation: at 63, he is suffering from cancer...
Sears has 755 retail stores (and 30 more abuilding) spread through every state, 1,065 catalogue outlets, 24 Simpsons-Sears stores across Canada, and 64 stores in Puerto Rico and Latin America. One U.S. family out of every three shops at Sears; it accounts for 6.2% of U.S. retail sales in the general lines of merchandise carried by the company, and its share of the home-appliance market ranges up to 25% of all the automatic washers and dryers sold in the U.S. Among Sears's 250,000 employees are 500 buyers, each of whom generally enters more orders...
...best off selling the product we have-the world's best climate plus easy accessibility to the world's biggest travel population." Drawing 546,000 tourists last year, the Bahamas doubled Bermuda's tourist intake, outdrew Jamaica 3 to 2, and ranked only behind Puerto Rico in total Caribbean tourist trade. Some Bahamians feel that their archipelago will soon outstrip Puerto Rico, and Sands predicts a 1,000,000-tourist year by 1971. One new lure: gambling. In the Bahamas' first real plunge, a casino opened its doors this month at Canadian Financier Lou Chesler...
...over $1 million has also been pledged from other private and public sources. The representatives of several Latin American countries have promised that their governments will donate as much as $100,000 to the fund. The first government to indicate support for the library was Venezuela; Mexico and Puerto Rico soon announced their intentions to contribute about $100,000 apiece...
...work" in Puerto Rico from December 28 to January 3, the Krokodiloes spent their last two days in the Virgin Islands, where they sang for several benefit concerts. The twelve man group also gave a short performance for Alfred V. Carpenter, benefactor of the Visual Arts Center, at his home in St. Croiz...