Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saratoga, White Sulphur to Hot Springs, or how long to remain at Tuxedo Park. Because the rich were so few, they clustered together in tight little colonies. Their "cottages" were turreted mansions, marble palaces and crenelated castles; they entertained only each other. Their summer colonies were located within a stone's throw of early U.S. wealth?New York, Philadelphia and Boston...
...coast made it a natural tourist center, and he soon bubbled over with ideas. When cruise ships arrived in port, Baldwin got the citizens to wear colorful folk costumes and put on exhibitions of the regional sword dances. He persuaded the subgovernor, Ozer Turk, to start rebuilding the massive stone caravansary in the center of town. Instead of housing camel caravans, it will be a hotel and shopping center...
Mexico's elemental magic was skillfully woven into the museum by its architect, Pedro Ramírez Váquez, 46, a team of 40 specialists, and hundreds of artists in wood and stone. Galleries surround an airy grand patio, roofed by an aluminum umbrella that keeps visitors dry in the season when Tlaloc works overtime. Like an upside-down fountain, a sun-stippled waterfall splashes freely onto the patio floor through the umbrella's center, veiling its only support, a bronze-covered column faced with modern interpretations of the rigid stylizations of pre-Hispanic imagery. Fire spurts...
...world's most comprehensive records of antiquity. Of more than 100,000 relics, two of the finest are the Coyolxauhqui, a 1,543-lb. moon goddess of jadeite whose grinning face is fringed with golden rattlesnakes, and a Western Hemisphere familiar, the 25-ton stone disk whose signs and symbols marked the hours and seasons and mapped the Aztec universe...
...world," says U.S. Architect Philip Johnson, who has built many museums himself. It may well be. However, the most convincing testimonial comes from the thousands of Mexican villagers who trek there from all over the country to marvel at their heritage. And, as they linger around an inscrutable stone god or by a latticed temple, they, too, become part of Mexico's living museum...