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...cinematography by Nestor Almendros is nothing short of spectacular, from the shining fields of grass to the dry, patched clapboard houses. And the scene of Moses and Edna planting cotton seed is as powerful as a Millet painting...
After independence, the population of Luanda more than doubled to 1 million as tribesmen flooded the capital in search of work. In the squalid shantytowns of wooden clapboard, sheet metal and clay adobe that ring the capital, barefoot children share the streets with squealing piglets, chickens and goats. Conditions in the bleak ten-story apartment houses in town are not much better: in front of one building, women and children draw runoff water from an enormous pothole in the street...
THROUGH THE WORK OF an American refugee resettlement organization, Lien and her brothers were brought to the United States a year and a half ago. Now ages 18, 19, and 25, they live under church sponsorship in a small clapboard house in a New England sea town. There are bicycles on the porch, a struggling tomato plant in the yard, bright white T-shirts on the clothesline, and a fully stocked refrigerator in the kitchen. During the summer months they bicycle everyday past candy and clothing stores to their coffee shop jobs. During the rest of the year the boys...
...Kirby II, the reclusive, aristocratic chairman of Alleghany, who inherited the helm from his late father in 1967. Though the company's headquarters are in New York City, Kirby operates out of his father's wood-paneled gold-carpeted office in a 175-year-old white clapboard house in Morristown, N J The family owns 43% of Alleghany stock, and Kirby once called IDS the "crown jewel of [our] business affairs. He may resist parting with that jewel at anything less than a royal price...
Some aspects of the Falklands' somnolent life have not changed. There is no television, though videocassette players are proliferating (the most popular movies: M*A*S*H and Julia). The telephones have crank handles and are operated by a sole switchboard. The brightly painted clapboard houses are heated with bricks of black peat stored in sheds near kitchen doors, and Land Rovers are the most popular means of transportation. The largest store is run by the Falkland Islands Co., which owns more than 43% of the land and employs 240 workers. Mutton, delivered to homes twice a week...