Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teeth in the T-Zone. The Women paintings are bathed in influences - 1930s Picassos and 1950s cigarette ads (that smile was originally a Camel "T-zone" clipped from a back cover of TIME), Cycladic sculpture and Mesopotamian idols, the "archaic smile" distorted into a toothy leer. They are also drenched in evocative rhetoric about monstrous, insatiable female deities. The Women have been compared, severally and together, to the destroying Kali, to Robert Graves' White Goddess, to Alban Berg's Lulu, to Lilith and Marlene and Marilyn and Mona Lisa. Now obviously these drawings do have their demonic aspect...
...brisk bidding was an Ecominas demand that private operators collectively guarantee to pay the government a minimum of $21 million for the first year and up to $35 million annually by the fifth year. Many companies also held back from bidding because of justified fear of the mining zone's raging violence...
Tropical Klondike. The illegal emerald trade has slowed somewhat since last July, when the government sent in an army division to seal off the biggest mining area and root out thousands of squatters, grifters and smugglers who had turned the zone into a kind of tropical Klondike. Yet many prospectors continue to slip by the army patrols, hole up in caves by day and dig for emeralds through the night with the help of masked flashlights. The army itself is not immune to emerald fever. Says Willis Bronkie, one of Bogota's biggest and most successful emerald dealers...
...opposing armies, in the course of 20 days, will pull back to carefully defined and separated positions. Each side's forces will be strung out in three zones whose dimensions were not spelled out in the published agreement but were quickly leaked. The first, 6.3 miles deep, may contain no more than 6,000 troops, 75 tanks and 36 "defensive" artillery pieces; the second, also 6.3 miles deep, may contain 450 tanks and unlimited defensive artillery; the third zone, 3.1 miles deep, carries no limit on forces and equipment, with the exception of missiles...
...Between the milltary zones a buffer zone varying in width from 1.3 miles to 3.7 miles will be manned by 1,250 United Nations troops. They will be charged with maintaining the cease-fire and seeing that it is "scrupulously observed." Along with this U.N. Disengagement Observer Force, 30,000 or more Syrian refugees will be allowed to return to their land; Syrian civilian administrators will run the buffer zone...