Word: burlaps
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...catharsis of Jimmy Cliff's music was lacking: the program was too easy and the audience too comfortable. "We sing a happy melody," says Jimmy Cliff, "but it's sad underneath." After peace and love was accepted and thrown back in approval, he (swallowed in dimming darkness, in burlap pants and Spirit of '76 belt-buckle) left his stage in the guard of redshirted kids...
...were burned during the French Revolution to render down their gold and silver threads. Others, seen as emblems of monarchical privilege, were simply destroyed. The Met's own Unicorn tapestries were taken by peasants and used to wrap potatoes. Even the Angers Apocalypse served as burlap to insulate orange trees and stuff cracks in walls. This exhibition is only a fragment of what Europe lost...
...levels, and emphasized the extraordinary haz ard. The team pointed out many examples of poor hygiene practices: the company lunchroom was close to the production area and workers were using compressed-air hoses to blow dust off each other (and thus spreading it about), and the company was selling burlap bags contaminated with asbestos. NIOSH promptly notified OSHA, which inspected the plant, fined P.C.C. $210, and gave it four months to come up to standards. When a reinspection showed that the company still had not installed necessary dust-control equipment, OSHA fined it $7,990 and promised further action. Forced...
...Humble Burlap. For one tapestry, Miró picked up a metal stencil for the letter G and splashed it on upside down in brown against bright yellow canvas. Then he hung the stencil itself on the fabric-also upside down. A handy whisk broom was slapped onto another tapestry. Working on a third, Miró's eye lit upon an empty paint bucket; he rammed it into the composition then, as an afterthought, added a fake spill of paint made of canvas. He proposed scorching certain areas to darken the hemp, and soon the studio flared with gouts...
...front of the stage, to catch leapers. The theory was: rather us than the cops. Five would be placed in the first balcony behind the stage, because the seats immediately behind it, great for hockey, but bad for rock shows, hadn't been sold. They were covered with burlap, and our only objective upstairs was to prevent people from sliding down the burlap and onto the stage...