Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PAUL COTTON New York City...
...factory town of Manchester might be called the cradle of the Industrial Revolution were it not that more than half the working-class children born there a century ago died before the age of five. Under Manchester's pall of smoke, pale families shuffled away their lives between cotton mill and hovel. Bad air, bad food, bad laws, monotony and danger were the workers' common lot. The din of machinery was a ceaseless taunt that whatever skill remained in their hands was irrelevant...
...lush countryside of the Canadian coastal forest might explain this art's concentration on repeating patterns, and these forms are more refined than the colorless, stark Eskimo style. But they are also less striking. The white man's influence shows most clearly in an "Octopus bag" made of felt, cotton, calico and brightly colored polychrome beads--all brought by white men. The resulting design is uncomfortably garish and foreign to the rest of the style...
There are, however, a few surprising sources of anti-Simon sentiment: some lower-level aides at the White House and in the Office of Management and Budget resent Simon's sudden prominence and independent ways (he recently said that OMB Director Roy Ash should keep his "cotton-picking hands off energy policy). Some of them have taken to making snide wisecracks about Simon: "When the President appointed an energy czar, he didn't know he was getting Ivan the Terrible...
...much can one thrill to a showdown featuring black and white cotton tails? The answer depends partly on how much one can accept Adams' conceit that rabbits "are like human beings in many ways." Adams' rabbits, like people, are divided into leaders, prophets, poets and even comedians. ("Do you know what the first blade of grass said to the second blade of grass?" asks the hlessil Henny Youngman. "He said 'Look, there's a rabbit! We're in danger!' ") The most favored Adams rabbits seem to speak in U accents ("I say, what...