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Getting dress material that is sturdy and cheap is the perennial problem of the penniless Haitian peasant women. Traditionally, old flour sacks have filled the need. Now cloth dealers in Port-au-Prince have found a bountiful new supply of material: surplus U.S. 48-and 49-star flags. From shore to shore the island is bright with dresses, shirts and kerchiefs in the stars and stripes; in peasant houses red, white and blue serves for sheets, pillow cases and tablecloths...
Circle & Cross. As Dr. Rajewski and his crews sifted the mud, they discovered what the people ate, wore and worshiped. They raised wheat, barley and other crops, which they cultivated with small plows. The women wove cloth out of wool and flax, sewed with bronze needles...
...happier times. For the Assyrians, the hunt was an art in itself. The king's men would release a captive lion from a cage so that the king could first wound him with arrows. At last the monarch would step forward, his left arm wrapped in a heavy cloth (which the artist here omits so as not to disfigure the king). As the lion reared for the last time, the king would plunge his weapon through the great beast's body...
...payroll. "Join the 20th century!" she bellows belligerently at Morley and his stunned subordinates, and proceeds to raise corporate Ned in the name of progress. She redecorates the offices, installs time clocks, adding machines, squawk boxes. Soon she is threatening to fire the tweed weavers. "Make cloth for millions-synthetic fiber...
...combat photos of Marine action in Korea (This Is War!) and his Pan-like celebration of The Private World of Pablo Picasso. From a snowscape of Red Square-that symbolic replica of the Russian steppes in the heart of Moscow-to the two-headed imperial eagle screaming on a cloth of gold, The Kremlin is a tone poem of somber and dazzling opulence...