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...most effective works place bas-relief figures carved in red clay on a tile background. In the "Virgin Spring," the distorted angles and sharp indentations of the man's face suggest his cruelty; the girl's expression seems both fearful and frightening. The even ridges in the forehead, beard, and robe of "The Scholar" contribute to the peaceful mood of this work...
...passing yachtsmen put into the placid bay, with its long, empty scythe of golden beach and tile-roofed houses climbing the slopes behind. The fishing was great-leaping sailfish and 400-lb. black marlin. The daytime temperature was in the 70s; in the evening, cooling breezes blew down from the mountains, and the mariachi music lasted far into the night. In the early 1950s a dozen or so Americans went to live in Vallarta. Friends came to visit-and hurried back on their own. Before long, Mexicana Airlines started flying in DC-3s, then DC-6s daily from Mexico City...
Like the impressionist artists of her age, Mrs. Gardner chose to convey the impression of overwhelming beauty rather than to display each treasure to its best advantage. The museum seems exhaustingly, if excitingly, full. A Dutch tile leans against the arches which surround a large Sargent painting. An 18th century Venetian settee obscures part of a 17th century embroidery panel. It almost seems that Mrs. Gardner wanted her visitors to find her treasures by chance if they find them...
...Last week the Pentagon even rushed in Major General Theodore F. Bogart, of the U.S. Army Forces Southern Command, for secret talks to be sure everyone got the message. But all threats and pleas were useless. Early one morning last week, four air force fighters swooped low over the tile-roofed capital of Tegucigalpa, as troops cut off access to the presidential palace. Villeda Morales' loyal civil guardsmen put up a vain resistance, and gunfire rattled through the cobblestoned streets. Honduras' President made a last desperate phone call to Ambassador Burrows for U.S. help. But Washington could...
...Forum. The two dissidents launched last week's crisis at a Sunday rally in the tile-roofed Kabylia capital, Tizi-Ouzou, which they had ringed round with machine guns. In Algeria's first popular demonstration against Ben Bella, 2,000 turbaned men and shawled women flocked into the town square, unintimidated by a government helicopter that fluttered past overhead. Sharing the platform, Aït Ahmed and Ou el Hadj proclaimed what began, at least, as a peaceful insurrection. Aït Ahmed called Ben Bella a "potentate," charged him with "betraying his comrades" and "destroying the revolution...