Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reverend who believes he gets messages directly from God--and who just may be right; a son, a self-aggrandizing deserter from World War II who has a diminishing grasp of reality; a daughter who copes with life's problems by stuffing her ears with an endless supply of cotton wool, then humming loudly; and the daughter's infant child, who is hopelessly deformed yet somehow survives. The action starts with the family's kidnaping of the baby from a hospital; it ends, after a cross-continental trek, at a revivalist religious meeting in Moose Jaw, Sask., where the infant...
...Uzbekistan, scene of a recent anticorruption drive, investigators discovered that much of the claimed 6 million-ton annual cotton crop existed only on paper. Farm officials were paying off bureaucrats at cotton-collection points in exchange for phony receipts acknowledging delivery of their crops. Bribes were also paid to employees of local cotton gins as the noncotton was nonprocessed. One result: while the announced volume of Uzbekistan's cotton harvest has increased over the past eight years, the amount of cotton fiber actually obtained has declined by 76,000 tons...
...broader trends in women's wear is long and clinging cotton and knit sweaters that give the outlines but not the details. The winner in my knit-picking contest is Adrenne Vittadini's line of sweaters that includes liberal quotations from modern artists like Klee, Miro, and Picasso; if you can't great art, at least you can wear...
...casual wear has split right down the Continental divide. The "Miami Vice" look, expertly (and expensively) produced by Matinique, enters around loose cotton shirts with big sleeves and large front pockets formless cotton or linen jackets and wide-legged, high-wasted trousers, all in semi-bright primaries like blue, yellow, and greens. Though Vice is nice, most men prefer not to look like walking piles of unironed laundry...
...result of the 1965 march, said conditions in Selma are much better now. A job then, he recalled, meant "50 cents a day and ten hours a day. You can get a lot more money now." Selma was once almost totally dependent on agriculture, mostly cotton. Now, observed Smitherman, still the mayor 20 years later, "there are 65 different sorts of manufacturing operations here." But Dallas County suffers a 15% unemployment rate; knowledgeable sources estimate the adult black unemployment rate at about 30%. The marchers formed two lines and moved toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Sixty state troopers were massed...