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...Cane in hand, a long cloak over his shoulders, "Brother Colonel" Muammar Gaddafi sat alone at a desk center-stage in the spanking-new, audio-equipped People's Hall, lecturing 980 People's Congress delegates like a stern but kindly headmaster. Occasionally he would make use of a blackboard to illustrate a topic. At times the proceedings suggested a college teach-in, with Gaddafi reminding delegates that they, not he, were the decision makers. As for the country's top ministers, the colonel said, "You can change any of them right now if you choose...
...Southern Cross, last year, the group has combined the primal energy of roadhouse rock 'n' roll with a down-home vision of America, particularly the South. Robbie Robertson's haunting folk ballad The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down recalls a traditional Civil War song: "Virgil Cane is the name/ And I served on the Danville train/ Til Stoneman's cavalry came/ And tore up the tracks again./ In the winter of '65, we were hungry and barely alive...
...dark, eerie moonlight we watch the burglar, Belmondo, crowbar his way into a ritzy, turn-of-the-century mansion. You have never seen such gaudy art nouveau furniture as lies within this house. And Belmondo sees no reason to pamper the stuff; he cracks open cabinets and bashes his cane through display cases. "This is a dirty business," he confides to us in a voice-over. "But I have one thing going for me. I do it dirtily...
...evening, dinner never earlier than midnight. "You can't imagine," he cackles, "how many disturbances I miss out on down here." This landscape offers the clue to his recent work, beginning with the Hoarfrosts and continuing through Jammers, a series of delicate sewn constructions of silk, twine and rattan cane. They are without pretension, and hardly displace air at all. They read as a shimmer of color, sails in the light. Off the beach, past the rattling leaves of the sea grapes, two ambiguous planes meet: the shallow coastal water, slicked with weed, taking the light like satin...
...efficient, agricultural experts expect the South's contribution toward meeting U.S. food demand to grow faster than the rest of the nation's. Cotton has declined in importance as a cash crop, but the slack has been taken up by other products: citrus fruit in Florida, sugar cane and rice in Louisiana. Southern soybean harvests are expected to account for 30% of the U.S. production in 1985, up from 27% in 1970. By 1985, Southern livestock farms will be producing nearly a third of all U.S beef cattle...