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...claw, tooth and bone-were a significant, though now unfashionable, part of the impact surrealism made on New York in the 1940s. On the other it comes out of a native, down-home strand of buckeye humor, folk forms that verge unconsciously on surrealism: tall Texan stories and Bible Belt grotesqueries. A zoo of critters lurks in Alexander's paintings: snakes preying on rats, rats eyeing scrofulous cats, and so on up the food chain to leopards and a large stag, whose rack of antlers has a horrified, spiky erectness. We are shown a teeming, hostile world where everything...
...least five houses, damaging 100 more in Farmington, 17 miles north of Salt Lake City, and sending a Mormon volunteer brigade into action. Last week 15 volunteers spent an entire day cleaning out the mud-filled basement of Paul Ward, 64. They threw watermelon-size rocks onto a conveyor belt and pushed buckets of muck through a cellar window to a team of 20 men, women and children, who passed the pails from hand to hand. Says a grateful Ward: "I wasn't expecting anybody to come help. They just showed up and started working...
...Madrid began the belt tightening by devaluing the peso immediately after taking office. At the same time, he adopted very strict measures to bring down inflation. The goal is an annual rate of 55% by year's end. Consumer interest rates were increased from 40% to 70% per year, gasoline prices were doubled, and a 15% value-added tax was slapped on all but the most essential goods...
...delayed an installment of a $5.8 billion rescue package that had been arranged in February. The IMF held up the $411 million payment because Brazil has failed to slow its inflation rate, which has been galloping at an annual pace of about 180%, and has neglected to take other belt-tightening steps. The agency's move led private banks to suspend payment on $633 million in new credits that had been tied to the IMF agreement...
Some viewers might be surprised by the movie's closing shot: The boy, sneaking back into his house after the party, is discovered by his father. The man pulls off his belt, preparing to punish his son. The final frame reveals the dark-skinned boy, his eyes bulging out in fear. Hudlin was advised that this shot might be offensive to some Blacks, a remainder of the stereotype of the bug-eyed Black slave afraid of the whip...