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...reasonably harmless bugs whose only sins are sucking sap out of trees for nourishment and killing small branches by laying eggs in them. They also mess up lawns with their 2-in.-long bodies. Vulnerable sapling oaks and fruit trees can easily be protected with a covering of cheesecloth. "They're more of a nuisance than anything else," says Douglass Miller, an entomologist with the Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md. "They do less damage than a good pruning...
...chiffon and satin that fluff and swirl with every movement. There's little hint given of time or place; the backdrop consists of neutral sheets of off-white canvas, allowing the colorful figures to stand even more distinctly. No curtain cuts off the view. Instead, a soaring contraption of cheesecloth strips covers without concealing. What minimal scenery the stage holds gradually disappears, leaving the set empty for the final two farces, free of all distractions...
...vulnerability to age and gravity, its indelicate openness. Hesse's role in providing American art with an exit from the minimalist impasse was crucial. Her ambition was to go in below the level of style, making art whose sensuous appeal was obliterated by its coarse, laconic materials: latex, cheesecloth, scrap metal...
...threads of domestic commercialism and foreign domination are evaluated in Barnouw's "Reckoning." For the former, he quotes Leo Rosten "it seems self-evident that to strain the milk of life through the cheesecloth of advertising must curdle creativity and--more ominously--contaminate truth." For the latter, he states: "The notion that America needs an assortment of...false faces for different purposes is a cold-war heritage that could be usefully abandoned...(also) it has involved large investments of public funds in broadcasting ventures...It is significant that countries which have become important bases for American propaganda transmitters include Portugal...
...interested in your article on the new bags to keep premature babies warm [March 1] as I had a three-pound daughter born at eight months. There were no incubators, so a tiny bag was made for her from absorbent cotton covered with cheesecloth. It had an attached hood, something like a parka, and the bottom was closed. She wasn't bathed for six weeks, but was oiled daily by opening the bag. This was 40 years...