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...striking photographs of city life, but the paperback format and irreverent, witty observations keep it firmly out of the coffee-table book genre. The 60-odd short essays on subjects ranging from the ubiquitous Asongan (vendors who ply their wares through the city's equally ubiquitous traffic jams), to bules (resident foreigners), nonkong (the art of hanging out) and waria (ladyboys) make up the ideal Jakarta primer, perfect for tourists who want to peek below the surface, or bule who want to know their adopted city better. And all the while it manages to avoid the exotic clich?s prevalent...
...pastures of plenty. But the source of this wealth is the labor of thousands of poorly paid, migrant workers who are kept in line by hired goons and their competition with each other for scarce field jobs. While living with the migrant workers, Woody meets up with Ozark Bule (Ronny Cox), a country singer and union organizer (Bule actually is a composite of several musician-agricultural workers' union organizers Woody knew during that time) who gets Woody a steady job at a local radio station. For a while Woody divides his time between radio performances and union organizing, eventually saving...
Wigglesworth E-12--Bennett F. Bule of Patrick, S. C.; Assistant in Geology...
...Bule Reserves A-Plenty...
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