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...Joan Baez considers herself a folk singer I June 1, she is indeed mistaken. If she believes that by wearing burlap, communing with nature and refusing money, she can maintain an "ethnic" image, it is only to those pseudo-intellectual "preppies" and college "folkniks" that she appeals. To those who know something about folk music, publicizing oneself with the "hair to the navel, dirt in the toes" effect is the grossest form of commercialism...
...home-a hideout near Carmel, Calif.-she wanders about in burlap blouse and worn blue shorts, tending a menagerie that includes several dogs, cats and lizards. There, she hopes she can "avoid what I think is stupid" by remaining "as close to the earth as possible." Other newcomers...
Last September they began a three-month meeting to work out the initial reductions on everything from lemons to razor blades and burlap. When the agreements were averaged out, they amounted to 27%, instead of the treaty-set minimum of 8%. At next August's meeting, the cuts may go deeper. Already two more nations-Ecuador and Colombia-have asked to join, and by August, the Latin American common market should include 86% of Latin America's territory, 81% of its population, more than 70% of its gross product, and 60% of its total trade...
...miles to San Manuel, where 70 peasant families work a landowner's 12,000-acre hacienda, in their off-hours tend their own tiny holdings. Tomor is trying to help the campesinos raise poultry. He has shown them how to build a chicken house of wire, wood and burlap and a brooder of wood slats, wire and an old barrel. Formerly, only one of every two San Manuel chicks survived; 49 of 50 chicks that Tomor is raising in a brooder have thrived. Now Tomor hopes to crossbreed good-laying Leghorns with the Rhode Island Reds that...
...show's creator, William C. Seitz, explains that the fuller title would be "The Art, Non-Art and Anti-Art of Assemblage." For an assemblage is neither a painting nor a sculpture, but something beyond, a combining of all sorts of objects -knives and forks, torn bits of burlap, weathered wood, old boxes, smashed pieces of cars, dismembered dolls, an abandoned breakfast-to achieve all sorts of effects. The Modern Museum's exhibition is the first major show of assemblages ever held, and even at its most non and its most anti, it casts a certain spell...