Word: cactus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single transformation wrought by the boom has taken place at Sahagun, a desert town 70 miles north of Mexico City. Only two years ago Sahagun was a textbook example of Mexican poverty, peopled by sleepy peons who made a living tapping "honey water" from the heart of the maguey cactus to ferment into pulque or distill into mescal. Then the Mexican government, relying mainly on generous concessions to private enterprise, set about overhauling the town...
...condemned to death by its master (Pedro Armendariz), the little boy steals it and becomes what the title so stickily suggests. He hides the horse successively in a smithy, a barbershop, a ruined hacienda, a boxcar, a church. In transit, the camera takes the usual tourist shots of cactus, fiestas, religious processions, fireworks, cactus. They are all colorful, but the Technicolor looks as if it were printed on the back of an old tortilla...
...years ago the San Pedro Valley desert east of Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains was inhabited by little more than coyotes and cactus. But after Magma Copper Co. proved up the nation's biggest copper deposit beneath the San Pedro Valley floor, the face of the desert changed. Earth movers terraced the rimrock into 1,500 homesites, bulldozers crunched over thousands of acres to carve out winding avenues, parks, shopping centers, a community swimming pool for the new town of San Manuel (TIME COLOR PAGES, July 25). To house Magma's workers. Builder Del Webb put house...
Here he praises the saguaro, the prickly pear and the wicked cholla cactus with all the exuberance of a convert. His companions are no longer Columbia University students, whom he once taught as Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, but creatures of the Sonoran sands -road runners, elf owls, jack rabbits, Gila monsters, tarantulas and scorpions...
Herbert Ferber, 49, dentist turned sculptor, welds together forms as spiny as cactus and as flowing as underwater foliage. Seymour Lipton, 51, also uses curved and unfolding plant forms to give a sense of enclosed space that, to Sculptor Lipton, suggests a "togetherness . . . of feeling and meaning, of inside and outside, of past and future." Egyptian-born Ibram Lassaw, 42, is the mystic among sculptor-welders; his brazed metal rods seem to float in the air like airy skyscraper girders. David Hare, 38, a color photographer turned surrealist, can put together a few jagged pieces of metal and dangling rods...