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...little Brazilian's yarn about an unexplored Amazon valley region which promised gold and probably oil. But soon after he set out with his wife in a private plane to look for the promised land, Pilot Allison crashed and his wife was killed. Shorn of the will to go on as a pilot, Allison settled down in the dreary river town of Manaos, became a hard-drinking Pan Am ticket agent...
...towers which space the mile-long encircling wall, the blue muzzles of machine guns point out over the huge (pop. 4,000,000), busy city of Moscow. Inside the Kremlin's walls, the tiny wooden church of Our Saviour of the Pine Forest, long since shorn of its bonds to God, nestles beneath the great golden domes and onion-topped towers of the Uspensky and Arkhangelsky Cathedrals, which are now museums...
...first it looked as if the woman's body fished out of the muddy waters of the River Plate would have to be tagged as another unsolved crime. With hair shorn, dental plates removed, fingertips destroyed by acid, all clothes removed, the corpse offered no clue to identity...
...painter of the American scene, Hopper has only one peer, Buffalo's Charles Burchfield. Like Burchfield, Hopper can make even eyesores magnificent. Shorn of irrelevant details, stripped of sentimental gloss, dismantled and recast in his canvases, they become monuments to their time...
...Fritz Bultman, 30, confined himself largely to black, white and grey arrangements of what looked like moldy bones. According to the catalogue foreword, his pictures were not really abstract: "Rather they are religious, or moral, bereft of realistic pictorial detail for the same reason philosophy is shorn of particular verbal description of the life whose meaning it explores...