Haiti's Primitive Artists Put Island On Art Map
Haiti has transformed from a backward island to an art power as primitive painters, once peasant and illiterate, now fill major galleries worldwide. Prices rise from 25 to 500 dollars, with collectors flying from New York to buy canvases. Prefete Duffaut and Petion Savain are key figures shaping a vibrant, diverse scene.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Caribbean
Petionville
Green Hospital
Laing Booz
United States
New York
U.S
Black Republic
Petion Savain
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Unesco
Paris
Hector Hippolite
Port Au Prince's
Episcopalian Cathedral of the Trinity
Christ
Apos
Tle
Judas Iscariot
Prefete Duffaut
Australia Studies Plans To Halt New Drug Traffic
Australia considers a national coastguard with aircraft and fast launches to curb drug trafficking. Officials favor light aircraft to pursue smugglers dropping drugs at remote airstrips and coordinate with surface vessels for coastline surveillance. The plan follows a Senate committee report urging a national coastguard.
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Australia
Sidney
Special Customs Department
Coast Guard
Excise and Customs Department
Department
Southeast Asia
Senate
Select Committee
Sweden's flamboyant Olympic hope Ricky Bruch
Ricky Bruch, Sweden's top athletics prospect for Munich, is a bearded discus thrower famed for flamboyance. The Malmo star blends astrology and meditation with rock music, drawing rival officials' ire and massive public attention as he chases the world record. He stands 6'2½" and 286 pounds, known for his gorilla roar and colorfully distinctive entrances.
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Malmo
Sweden
Muhammad Ali
Ricky Bruch
Stuntman Shuns Tarantula and Sharks on Bond Set
Bob Simmons, famed stuntman of James Bond films, reveals two stunts he would never perform again a tarantula crawl over his chest to his jugular and swimming through a school of 10 foot sharks both done for Dr No and Thunderball He notes the risks and insists stunts should have a carefully calculated risk factor despite past dangers The Briton 37 has worked with Bob Hope Alan Ladd and most Bond films and recounts the silent Pinewood studio shoot with the tarantula and the zoologist professor timing the scene
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Almeria
Spain
Bob Simmons
Dr. No
007
Simmons
Yul Brynner
Catlow
Bob Hope
Alan Ladd
London
Pinewood Studios
Terence Young
Anti Lace Movement Surges After Lagos Robber Executions
In Lagos Nigeria a backlash against lace clothing grows after three armed robbers were executed on a local beach. Observers note lace’s high price up to 36 dollars a yard and view it as a status symbol fueling suspicion of illicit wealth. The condemned man wore traditional buba and sokoto as photographers captured the moment.
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Lagos
Sokoto
Ancient Bishapur Dig Yields Rich Sassanian Finds
Iran's Bishapur site yields outer walls towers statues weapons and jewels from a major excavation led by Ali-Akbar Sarfaraz. Work began three years ago with 10 archaeologists and plans for continued digging over the next 17 years amid heat limited seasons.
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Iran
Bishapur
Shiraz
Ali-Akbar Sarfaraz
Shapur I
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