Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...production does it ample justice. With the help of a distinguished cast, director Richard Edelman has mounted a very funny, generally convincing version of Shaw's unwitting paen to the U.S. bicentennial, though even Edelman and company can't quite make Dudgeon's transformation into a man of the cloth...
...that certain American exports could be shipped only to or through Britain cut into the profit on such products as tobacco, America's No. 1 export (102 million pounds last year). When colonial hat and wool manufacturers started to compete with English factories, Parliament likewise restricted American hat and cloth manufacturing. "The erection of manufactories in the Colonies tends to lessen their dependence on Great Britain," reads a House of Commons resolution. When America began exporting iron, Parliament prohibited the establishment of new factories in the Colonies. Only this year did the Colonists build their first new mill to make...
...been done. Most colonies have forbidden the slaughter of lambs or sheep and the eating of mutton so that more sheep will be available for the infant wool industry ?textiles having suffered from the most stringent British prohibitions. A year ago, there were no fulling mills for woolen cloth in New Jersey; now there are 41. The Virginia Convention resolved to turn "from the cultivation of tobacco to the cultivation of such articles as may form a basis for domestic manufactures, which we will endeavour to encourage to the utmost of our abilities...
...fate came from a fellow prisoner who jumped overboard from a ship in the convoy and swam to the North Carolina shore. He also reported that when the convoy stopped at Cork in February, Allen was greeted ecstatically by sympathetic Irishmen, who showered on Allen such luxuries as wool cloth for suits, a couple of beaver hats, several turkeys, sugar loaves and pickled beef...
DeLillo's aim is to show how the codification of phenomena as practiced by scientists leads to absurdity and mad ness. It is not his fault that Pynchon is simply better at weaving advanced science and cartoon characters into a convincing whole cloth. Still, Ratner's Star, for all of its monotonic monologues, of ten displays impressive erudition and the same inebriated infatuation with language that worked so well in DeLillo's End Zone, his surrealistic send-up of football and warfare...