Word: caning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Christened Candy Cane, she makes her debut when Ruby hosts precinct night for the Dallas police force. The night marks Ruby's big debut, also--he finally gets his big break with the bosses. His challenge is to use his drug running links to free Santos Alienate (Marc Lawrence), their man in Havana, catapults Ruby into the limelight and allows him to play with the big boys at a mob gathering in Las Vegas. Soon, However, the bar owner finds himself embroiled in events that are beyond his understanding and control...
...behind the historical figure of Jack Ruby--remarkably well. As a Jewish hustler trying to move up in the Sicilian hierarchy, Ruby is the quintessential outsider, and Danny Aiello movingly portrays him as an heroic figure seeking truth, justice and the American way. Sherilyn Fenn, as Candy Cane, also boosts the movie's emotional impact...
Bazzaz has also found that some types of plants, including corn and sugar cane, stop growing faster earlier than weeds and crops such as wheat and soybeans...
Roberson, 59, is one of a determined band of women in this small unincorporated hamlet 20 miles east of New Iberia. Most of the 150 houses have antiquated wiring and leaking roofs; few public services reach places like Four Corners. As the cane industry became mechanized, many people lost jobs that their families had held for generations. The average annual family income in this town of 400 is below...
Since 1969, Southern Mutual has worked to improve the lives of those who toil in the fields. Back then, many farmworkers lived behind the "cane curtain" in self-contained plantations with names such as the Bottoms, Oxford and Dog Quarters, filled with rented shacks reminiscent of the tarnished side of the antebellum era. The field hands were paid with chits and exchanged the paper for goods at overpriced company stores. Since crops are seasonal, the field hands ran up large tabs, which were then deducted from their pay and resulted in a lifetime of indenture. Those who quit were ordered...