Word: burlap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jellifies had little money, used in genuity instead. When famed Negro Actor Charles Gilpin gave them $50 to start a Negro theatre, they launched the Gilpin Players in a converted poolroom. They made spotlights of tin cans, tapestries of burlap, seats of secondhand pews. They started other groups painting, etching, dancing, singing, composing, band-playing, glazing pottery. One day a 14-year-old boy named Zell Ingram, having learned puppet-making in Karamu House, decided to see the world. He bought an old Ford, converted its rumble seat into a stage, paid his way to Manhattan and back by giving...
...still a big worm operator. Earthworms are hermaphrodites; all healthy adults lay eggs by the score, and Oliver gathers them by the million, from layers of damp burlap in his culture beds. Packed in damp peat moss, they can be shipped any distance. Thirty days after being unpacked and put in the soil, the eggs hatch; 90 days later they become adults laying eggs of their own. Earthworms make a wonderfully nourishing and relatively cheap food for poultry, hatchery fish, market frogs, terrapin. Everybody knows that chickens like worms. Dr. Oliver has devised what he calls an "intensive range" poultry...
...placed on view. The 100-odd drawings and canvases in the exhibition. ranged from mad, wire-worky diagrams to basket-textured abstractions. Some, like the Twittering Machine, had an odd, disembodied relation to mechanical objects. Some looked like primitive drawings by U. S. Indians. Many were painted on coarse burlap, resembled intricate tattered rugs and tablecloths. All had a look of quiet, pastel-shaded insanity. The show was posthumous: short, sharp-faced Artist Klee had died at his Swiss home four months before. It was also posthumous in another sense. To the red-cheeked, goose-stepping Nazis who after...
...PROMISED LAND-James Street -Dial ($3). The huge. Indian-fighting Georgia cracker Sam Dabney and his sister Honoria, a burlap knock-off of Scarlett O'Hara, start at the bottom and work their way up. Also involved in these 816 pages are Tecumseh, the Natchez Trace, the cotton gin, the Battle of New Orleans, the opening up of Alabama and Mississippi. For readers to whom vivid frontier data is cheesecake, there are enough exposed bosoms,-vengeance motifs and brutalities to go round...
...favorite Venezuelan hosts was eccentric Painter Hernandez Reveron, who paints almost entirely in various tones of white. Artist Reveron first tests the tightness of his canvas by "getting the feel of the tension," next tightens the belt of his burlap shorts, the straps of his sandals and his arm muscles to the same degree. When all the tensions are equal, he attacks the canvas like a tiger. After four hours' work, he is so exhausted that he must go down to the beach, swim out and gulp sea water...