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...leading foreign investor in the U.S. through its 27% ownership of the giant Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corp. in New York. Last month Mineral and Resources Corp. expanded further in the U.S. with the takeover of Sovereign Coal Corp. in Bluefield, W. Va., Harman Mining in Harman, Va., and Terra Chemicals International, Sioux City, Iowa. If that sort of investment continues, Americans may come to know Harry Oppenheimer as well as South Africans...
...world-reknowned writer, has been a diplomat, and is now a Fellow at Dartmouth College. For many people, Carlos Fuentes serves as a spokeman for Mexico--the country he writes his experimental and political works about. His novels such as Terra Nostra, The Death of Artemio Cruz. Where the Air is Clear, Hydrahead, and the recently translated collection of short stories. Burnt Water, have all treated the themes of Mexico's 1910 revolution, class society and ancient past, employing the symbolism and mythology of Mexico's revolution and indigenous people. Fuentes has been venerated for his prolific and original books...
...early bronzes and terra cottas were heavily influenced by French Cubist Sculptor Henri Laurens, and their dominant rhythm was taken from Mayan art-a blockish, crankshaft-like sequence of shapes. They may have been stylistically uncertain, but they were powerful, and on seeing them, a leading New York dealer named Nierendorf gave Nevelson her first one-woman show, in 1941. She was past 40, an age when some artists start thinking not about their debuts but about their retrospectives...
...calls it, is a symbol of the ebullient optimism that ushered in the new age of machine worship. The Beaubourg Center (1977), which looks like a trite and showy illustration from a science fiction magazine, becomes a symbol of the decline of that exhausted era. In between is a terra incognita that we may think we know-the art of the 20th century...
However, the mirth is only the means to a more serious end. Ted Tally, who wrote a somber tribute to the moral courage of polar explorers in Terra Nova, now explores the contagious terrain of venality. He asks, in effect, How do creatures such as David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Jim Jones and Gary Gilmore, men who occupy an appalling moral void, arc to celebrity status save for the vulpine collusion of the goldbugs - agents, publicists, the press, TV and films...