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...Brazil, where the nuts come from," said Charley's aunt, thus inadvertently assessing the extent of nearly everyone's knowledge of a country that covers 6% of the earth's land surface. But Brazil, especially Amazonia, is the last old-fashioned Eldorado left, a trove of unexploited gold, rare woods, precious stones, exotic pelts and untold deposits of minerals. It is also one of the last places where the bloodshot eye of the fatigued humanist can still see in progress the fatal consequences of Eldorado: the destruction of indigenous peoples. Lucien Boclard, a French journalist and author...
...film makers to come out of the direct cinema movement. The direct cinematographer is a special kind of film journalist who, rather than creating (or reconstructing) events, attempts to situate himself in the midst of them. Though he cannot transcend his subjective viewpoint, his object is ostensibly an objet trove, a "real life drama," and the structure of his film is to be determined by the nature of that object in action. Thus Albert says of Gimme Shelter that "we structure around what actually turned out to happen"; "what comes out of it is a surprise to us as well...
Officials at San Francisco's de Young Museum were happily sorting through their newest treasure trove-some 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures ranging from Boucher and Delacroix to Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. A museum director could hardly ask for a finer gift; moreover, the works, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, filled in a period where the de Young's own collection was weak. But museum officials were perhaps the least bit embarrassed too-about the personality of the donor. She happens to be the widow and custodian of the estate of T. Edward Hanley, the distinguished...
...Treasure Trove. Besides homesickness, Picasso seems to have been motivated by the fact that in Barcelona he met his lifelong friend and later secretary, Jaime Sabartés. Over the years, Picasso gave Sabartés a treasure trove of his works. In 1963. Sabartés donated the rich collection to the city of Barcelona, which provided a lovely old palacio to house it. Picasso's bequest was actually made a month ago, when he summoned a Barcelona notary public to his Riviera villa and dictated a document, declaring, "I, Pablo Picasso, in memory of my unforgettable friend...
...negotiations with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts fell through. With one single purchase, Los Angeles has thus acquired an Indian collection that ranks alongside those of Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art and Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery. The museum plans to capitalize on its new trove by building up its Oriental library, and to further attract scholars to the area by cooperating in programs with nearby U.C.L.A., which already has a strong Asian-studies department...