Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCarthy recalls an officer he knew while growing up in New York during the 1960s. "On the corner on the way to school was Tony the cop," he says. "I remember him clearly to this day. He was out there every...
...accepting the UFW's statements about working conditions, the Crimson staff exposes its lack of knowledge about present-day conditions on California farms. True, when the UFW began its campaign for better working conditions in the 1960s, working conditions on many farms were poor. Today, however, farms are held to strict regulations when it comes to field sanitation, health insurance, drinking water and pesticide use. Growers who apply pesticides to their crops (and nearly all do) must file pesticide application records with local authorities, and must keep workers out of those fields for a specified number of days after application...
...address problems of mechanical reproduction and authorship. The ICA show includes several black, rubber and Beracryl castings of mundane objects like a candle or a doggy dish. Although these hand-made "readymades" may be overly indebted to Jasper John's light bulb or flashlight castings of the early 1960s, other pieces in the exhibition toy more originally with the idea of banal objects posing as high...
...maintaining a corrupt, elite Communist cadre necessitates such outrages; the meal ticket Jiang really cares about is his own. It is not coincidental that the two greatest famines that occurred during in the 20th century apart from those during civil wars were in Soviet Ukraine (1930s) and Communist China (1960s). History has shown that democracy is more likely to care for its citizens in times of need than totalitarian regimes...
Behind the man is a world map from the 1960s with hundreds of pins stuck into every corner of the globe. Representing the home towns of the Tasty's many patrons, the pins are scattered across the map from Sacramento to Singapore to Sydney...