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Most of the dead had been so badly burned that they could not be identified. Often nothing remained but charred bits and pieces. Rescue workers brought out the remnants in plastic bags. By Tuesday evening, 272 coffins were taken to the cemetery in the nearby barrio of Caracoles, where Caterpillar tractors dug two trenches about 200 ft. long and 10 ft. deep. The coffins were stacked in the mass grave, covered with lime and then buried. A crowd of 10,000 clutched flowers and murmured prayers...
...surprisingly, playful frames are most often found around the work of newer artists, the ones most likely to resist received tradition (and to follow fashion). A deliberately cartoonish image by Kenny Scharf sports edges decked with plastic dinosaurs and rockets. Larger-than-life wooden silhouettes - two birds, for instance, or a garland of branches - shoot up around the landscapes of Alan Herman. More established figures are also working in the same vein. Howard Hodgkin, whose canny strokes of pigment hint at enclosed views, sweeps paint across the frame to twit its pretensions as the final proscenium...
...Baby Fae's televised smile had beguiled skeptics, the word ghoulish was heard: some sacred barrier between species had been broken, some principle of separateness between man and animal violated. Indeed, it is a blow to man's idea of himself to think that a piece of plastic or animal tissue may occupy the seat of the emotions and perform perfectly well (albeit as a pump). It is biological Galileism, and just as humbling. Nevertheless it is fact. To deny it is sentimentality. And to deny life to a child in order to preserve the fiction...
...Naipaul, the best of contemporary novelist-travel writers, he takes a melancholy view of lands that are past their primes. In the city of Kenya he discovers a universal shabbiness imposed by the use of concrete: "The Asiatics' love of bright colors, too, is betrayed by the plastic paint they slap on everywhere, which flakes and peels as the colors of their native fabrics and tiles never did." A few passages border on old-fashioned disrespectful wog-whomping, though some of the author's deepest disdain is reserved for the scraggly, underwashed Western students who can be found...
Since the early 1970s, says Elliott, the greatest change at WHRB has been the increase in rock programming. In the early '70s, popular rock music was aired more and more frequently. In the mid-'70s, the rock show "Plastic Passions" began and became one of the station's major shows. Within a few years, "The Darker Side" and other shows devoted to music ranging from reggae to soul to jazz took...