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...technique, has reported that 48 of 66 objects thought to be from Hacilar, a settlement that existed 7,000 years ago in southwestern Turkey, are forgeries. The results of their investigations, published in the current issue of Oxford's Archaeometry, also showed that 25 "Etruscan" wall paintings on terra cotta, for which Swiss, American and other collectors have been paying up to $24,000 apiece, are less than twelve years...
Heyerdahl's account of the voyage was translated into more than 60 languages, sold more than 20 million cop ies. In 1955 he made an expedition to Easter Island, 2,350 miles west of Chile, and another bestseller, Aku-Aku, resulted. But then he bought a 13th century terra cotta chateau above the Ital ian Riviera and settled down to a comfortable life of sun-kissed scholarship. Had Thor Heyerdahl become adventurer emeritus? Not quite...
...distinguish the problems of form and function in Mather House. As a collection of masses, the building succeeds admirably. The tower balances with Peabody Terrace, the low-rise balances with Dunster House, and the idea of an interior space gives the whole affair a kind of lumbering cosmic equilibrium. Terra cotta was the original choice for the exterior faces, and the texture which it would have provided might have prevented the tower from looking like a rouged waffle-iron...
...masses by their self-consciousness as legend and their mystical level of existence. Sebastiao, for instance, the revolutionary "Black God," seeks to "revenge the death of Christ with the blood of the innocent" (he kills babies) and to reunite the entities of the earth and the sea. In Terra em Transe the mysticism shifts to the realm of political and economic power. The right-wing senator Diaz fulfills a Christian mission "to put hysterical traditions in order, through violence and the love of violence," while the populist governor Vierra professes a metaphysic of the masses ("the blood of the people...
...Terra em Transe is an enormous, complex, and exciting process. It contains not only political elucidation, but also implications for creating a crude and alive revolutionary culture-struggling against the imitations of European perfection as well as the populist paternalism and "simplicity." Rocha strives politically for imperfection, as he said at the Pesera New Cinema Festival in 1968, since "true modern art-ethically, aesthetically, revolutionary-uses a language to oppose the dominating language... to oppose through the impure aggressiveness...