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Every five years the image is carried to Santa Cruz in a procession known as La Bajada de la Virgen (the Descent of the Virgin).
Outside these were the Untouchables, those of aboriginal descent.
One small group reversed its descent down stairwell A after being advised by another civilian that they were approaching a floor "in flames."
What that day's story added was news of the existence of this document outlining a plan to raise money from Americans of Asian descent.
For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's "dream songs"), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suicide.