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...Amazon jungle, thousands of dust-covered laborers swarm over a mountain of red earth, using their pickaxes and shovels to carve its surface into a bizarre landscape. It is a scene that could belong to an outlandish biblical epic movie or a sinister labor camp. It is neither. Serra Pelada (Bald Mountain), 270 miles south of the mouth of the Amazon River, is the site of one of the biggest gold rushes in modern Brazilian history. It is also an experiment by Brazil's debt-ridden government to harness the skills of the country's hardy garimpeiros-nomadic...
...oddly enough, minimalism−a style made up of simple, primary, uninflected forms, usually garnished with tangled masses of oversubtilized criticism. Less, these days, does not seem to be more, especially when the work in question is yet another empty grid by Sol LeWitt, or something like Richard Serra's Toll, 1978-79−three walls of a gallery enclosure painted dead, oily black. In the past, some of Serra's sculptures have been memorable, their slabs and rolls of lead or iron imbued with a harshly macho directness. Compared with them, Toll is merely a shrug...
Hockey. Ask me about the Islanders and I'll tell you spinetingling tales of Chico Resch saves, Bryan Trottier dekes and Mike Bossy wrist shots. Ask me about RPI and I'll recount the exploits of Dino Serra, Barry Martinelli, Steve Stoyanovich and other creative names. Ask me about the Bruins and I'll laugh...
Most of my college hockey experience comes from watching RPI during interludes at my Albanian (N.Y., not Europe) grandparents'. The names of Serra, Martinelli and other former Engineer frontliners may not ring a bell, but Harvard skaters remember Stoyanovich (who, incidentally, has been drafted by the Islanders) all too well, for it was he who blasted one of his patented slapshots past Wade Lau to defeat the Crimson last November...
...Portugal's military revolution are beginning to look more and more like opposing forces. Last week all military units in northern Portugal were placed on strict alert and confined to barracks following the mutiny of an artillery regiment near the city of Oporto. The 650 mutineers at the Serra do Pilar Regiment ran a red banner up the flagpole and demanded the dismissal of the region's new anti-Communist military commander, General António Pires Veloso. They also demanded an end to what they called "purges" of leftists from the barracks and the reopening...