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...clear from the New York shows that out of this pharaonic enterprise, Rauschenberg has been producing some of the best work of his career. Some of it involves materials quite new in his oeuvre, most notably clay. The star piece in the show at Castelli is Dirt Shrine: South, 1982, a pseudo combine in which all the disparate elements (tire track, painted chain, stone, bamboo ladder) were made from fired ceramic in Japan. The characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern...
...Goldberg-like contraption garnished with walkways, conveyor belts, pipes, vents and ducts. With squeaks, clicks, belches and groans, it lurches forward, a 40-ft.-tall wheel revolving at its side. The twelve buckets along the wheel's rim gouge out the earth and occasionally hurl wayward chunks of clay high in the air. Close by, groups of near-naked black tribesmen stand with spears in hand, staring in wonder...
...Nicaragua, Sister Rachel Pinal, 48, walks for hours through the precipitous mountains of Nueva Segovia to help the impoverished campesinos. She spends her nights sleeping alongside mangy dogs, chickens and pigs on the hard-packed clay floors of the shacks of peasants who take her in. Despite such hardships, says Sister Rachel, "we get involved in so many wonderful things that sometimes I cry myself to sleep from...
...rivalry. By selling hats with the logo "Go Harvard, Yale Sucks" to students here, and similar hats that say "Go Yale, Harvard Sucks" to students in New Haven the group hopes to make "a fair amount of money" before Saturday's Game, said Dartmouth student R. Clay Bloomer...
...Says one union official who earns $200 a year more than the ceiling allows for student aid: "My daughter's at college. They told her to get a job if she needed help. And there ain't no jobs! Something has got to be wrong somewhere." Thelma Clay cans vegetables from her one-acre garden and worries: "It hurts the young ones, it really does. My daughter's been laid off four years and she'll probably never get called back. She's got two kids and she can't find nothing that will...