Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from the farmers on the outskirts, most of the people in Kathmandu today are small shopkeepers who generally make what they sell. The established shopkeepers have stores on the ground level of the several-story buildings that crowd the narrow streets of the market area. These shops are little...
Nouhan has made deals with customers proffering jewelry, TV sets and freezers. When one man showed up with a 1947 singleengine, canvas-covered aircraft, Nouhan sportingly went along for a test ride, then accepted the plane as a trade-in for $1,300. After the flight, Nouhan learned to his...
With no settlement of their six-month agony in sight, Cypriots are living through the bleakest, most bitter winter in memory. Though there have been losses and atrocities on both sides, the Greek Cypriots, who make up 80% of the island's population, have suffered the most. Terrified by...
The situation of some 10,000 Turkish Cypriot refugees in the southern, Greek-controlled part of the island is no better; they, too, are living under canvas this winter. In two desolate camps at the British base in Akrotiri, many are suffering from bronchial and rheumatic conditions, and there are...
Historical Fumes. Martin Butlin, keeper of the British Collection at the Tate Gallery, points out in the catalogue that Turner's cataclysms were meant to replace the older European tradition of personified myth-wrathful Zeus and so forth-and thus they moralize nature itself. Turner, a self-taught man...