Word: amazonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them." Nor were casual visitors to blame. Most menhirs were buried deep in the maquis (brush), some of them face-down or savagely hacked into two or three pieces. Describing his most important find, a 160-ft. hillock with 17 sculptured menhirs at Filitosa, he says: "It was an amazonian jungle. We crawled up it like foxes. Suddenly, I found myself nose to nose with a prehistoric statue. Imagine the suspense...
...highway from Brasilia to the Amazonian city of Belem that was completed in 1960 has opened up hundreds of square miles of virgin land. This fact, coupled with visions of towering skyscrapers rising from the freshly turned red earth, has brought speculators and just plain land seekers flocking from West Germany, Japan, the U.S. and other countries. They have bought up land for as little as 70 an acre from private owners, sometimes reselling it for as much as $2 an acre. Around the Hotel Nacional bar in Brasilia, some speculators regale foreigners with Bunyanesque tales of undiscovered mineral riches...
...Raymonda was a pretty, sugar-spun spectacle and, along with Nureyev's offstage antics, the roaring sensation of last year's Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy. Last October he rechoreographed the Petipa-Ivanov version of Swan Lake in Vienna. In his strong belief that "the Amazonian takeover" of the ballet has resulted in an appalling denigration of the male, Nureyev scissored Tchaikovsky's music, jiggered dances, and virtually reworked every number until the dreamy fairytale prince emerged as a rip-snorting hero who dominated both the dance and drama...
Some of his schemes to water Peru's deserts, tame its Andean mountains and populate its Amazonian jungles sound visionary to an extreme. Peruvians are at least willing to let him try. "We must not be afraid of greatness," he says. "We have lost the habit of thinking on a grand scale, of conceiving works that, like the Panama Canal, change the geography of a continent. The hour of the pioneer, the founder of new cities, must be sounded. Nature is our enemy, and nature can be overcome...
Mythical War. Liberia's President Tubman completely furnished his executive mansion at Macy's. Tonga's Amazonian Queen Salote outfitted herself for Queen Elizabeth's coronation by purchasing six Macy's gowns (size: 24). Some of the most avid customers are the visiting materialists from Russia and its satellites, who enjoy picking at Macy's the fruits of capitalist enterprise. For those who cannot make the trip to Herald Square, Macy's has a personal shopping service. Among millions of routine assignments, it has dispatched six bottles of Coppertone to a sunburned Englishman...