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...empire was gone, the nation still bitterly divided by the fratricidal year-end strike set off by the austerity measures designed to make up for the $215 million a year that Belgium had been accustomed to extracting from the Congo. The new year saw the freakish collapse of a slag heap near Liege, burying six homes and eleven persons. It also brought the worst air disaster in Belgian history, a Sabena jet crash that killed 73. In anger over the Congo, often under Communist leadership, Belgian embassies and consulates were being looted and burned around the world. In the streets...
...tall, young Tory backbencher angrily waved an arm down toward his own government front bench. "There they sit," he cried, "a row of disused slag heaps." The occasion was a noisy passage in a depressed-areas debate back in the mid-'30s, and the critic was a comparatively unknown M.P. for Stockton named Harold Macmillan...
Sometimes it came deep in the earth where Borinage miners scratch out coal from overworked shafts in constant expectation of cave-ins, poison gas, flooding, fire and explosion. More often it came on the grey, slag-heaped surface as miners coughed out their lives. Emile Zola saw the Borinage in the 1880s and poured its horror into his powerful classic, Germinal. A few aged miners still remember the emaciated, stubble-bearded Dutch preacher named Vincent Van Gogh, who lived in one of their hovels, held services and sketched their bowed bodies with fever-palsied hands...
...England's green and pleasant land, few areas are more blighted than Yorkshire's grim and dour West Riding, with its blackened industrial valleys forested with smokestacks, jug-shaped cooling towers, sooty spires and reeking slag heaps. Yet last week, as the Leeds City Art Gallery staged a five-man, 58-piece sculpture show of Yorkshire's native sons, it became abundantly clear that this area of bleak moors is the cradle of Britain's sculpture renaissance...
Much the same could be said of Armitage's own work. Barrel-bodied shapes such as his Standing Figure (see cut), with stiff, sticklike legs and doorknob heads, could have been dug out of a slag pile or found beneath Pompeii buried in volcanic ash. They represent a recent departure for Armitage, who since 1952 has moved away from his flat, screenlike groupings, created figures in the round that won him a $1,000 sculptor's award at this year's Venice Biennale...