Word: cottoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interest groups, via the mechanism of patronage politics and politics of spoils. Among the benefits affirmatively targeted in this way are jobs, purchasing contracts, construction contracts, defense contracts, zoning privileges, land acquisition, and government loans in the millions. The recipient groups include ethnic groups, business groups galore, veterans, tobacco, cotton, dairy, soybean, wheat and other farmers and land speculators. When "social power" was the mechanism of affirmatively targeting benefits (during, say, the era of middle class an upper class WASP hegemony from 1860-1920), this was essentially "politics by other means" to crib Clausewitz...
...popular of U.S. weavers, Helena Hernmarck, has set herself totally against this modern orthodoxy. Hernmarck weaves an unabashed photorealism, often actually working from photographs. This may sound like kitsch. But when observed and contemplated day in, day out, Hernmarck's transformations of photo images into large wool, linen and cotton thread weavings are often stunning and always pleasurable artistic experiences. They are, in fact, a sort of return to the pictorial tapestry tradition of the Renaissance...
...meditative state, explains men's tennis and squash coach David R. Fish '72, who has used the techniques individually on his players since 1977 and is in the process of expanding both teams' mental training programs. He adds, "The visualization is vivid down to the mouth's cotton taste, or sweaty palms...
LEAST CONGENIAL COUPLES: Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton in Rhinestone; Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in Falling in Love; Producer Robert Evans and Director Francis Coppola on The Cotton Club...
Take your pick of genres and moods. A cabaret evening? Try Haarlem Nocturne, led by lightning-footed Andre De Shields and best described as The Cotton Club with all the terrific dancing put back in. A serious play? In August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a quartet of black gents sit around talking about music, women, and the demonstrable unfairness of life. Alas, Ma Rainey natters toward its climax like Ibsen gone funky, but it illuminates the talents of worldly-wise actors; one, Charles S. Dutton, spumes anger as the odd man out, striding, not shuffling...