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Meanwhile, Britons were muddling through as usual. Office workers corn-batted lowered thermostats by taking extra sweaters to work. Some homeowners and shopkeepers did their bit to conserve energy by substituting candles for electric lights. Bishop William Milne installed a "dial a prayer" service in Worcester for people worried about the national emergency...
...symbol of black pride and awareness. Later the 'fro became as passe among some avant-garde blacks as the plantation bandanna, giving way to such hairstyles as the puff and the shag. But no successor to the Afro coiffure has caught on more rapidly than the corn-row-tight, Topsy-like plaits that until recently were worn by women. Now a growing number of soul brothers are sporting buckwheat braids in as many variations as there are African nations, where the style is traditional...
While many braided men-as well as women-cajole friends or family into helping them twine their locks, others visit an expanding coterie of cornrowing specialists. Manhattan Corn-Rower Femi Sarah Heggie has plaited the likes of Aretha Franklin, Melvin Van Peebles, Nina Simone and Dick Williams. Brooklyn Plaiter Christine Harper, on the other hand, concentrates on braiding businessmen in their 20s and 30s. "Rugged he-men types are my best customers," she says. The mahatma of Washington corn-rowers is Nat Mathis, better known to friends and customers as Nat the Bush Doctor. Nat began his career with Afros...
...usually you meet the men heading out to the corn fields with their mules and wooden plows, and the older men and older boys, picks and shovels slung over their shoulders, setting out to work on the road. The boys or girls guide their sheep out to pasture, or bring in the hay for the animals, and Don Margorito or his neighbor moves from one maguey plant to the next, extracting the sweet agua miel that soon ferments into pulche, an alcoholic drink. Or, later, you pass the very small children, laden with Pepsi bottles and tortillas for their fathers...
...cool." She scoops up a handful of corn meal and slaps it back and forth between her hands until it is thin and perfectly round. Then she puts it on the griddle. "You wouldn't like a hot tortilla with a little salt, Senorita...