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...flower, grins and flings it to someone else. A woman devotee bounces with her baby's face pressed in her sarong. Another child hops at her feet, his hands thrust to the ceiling. A devotee jumps from alongside the altar with a burning brass tin of ghee-soaked cotton. He dodges his fellow devotees, offering each the burning ghee, or clarified butter. Everyone passes his hand over the sweet smelling ghee and touches his forehead...
What becomes a legend most? The lace-trimmed cotton knickers displayed by Cockney Comic Marty Feldman once belonged to Queen Victoria. A collector of 19th century furniture and art, Feldman figured that nothing would be more Victorian than the royal underpants, so when he spotted them at a London auction he laid out a bloomin' $320 for the bloomers. Besides, patriotic to the nines, he "wanted to preserve part of England's heritage and to keep an Englishman's hands on Queen Victoria's drawers." She would not have been amused...
...possible answer: "Big John" carries weight in the corporate world as well as the South and Midwest. Potential fundraisers, applicants and even recruiters west of the Mississippi might well cotton to old Johnnie Harvard a bit more, if old Johnnie Connally gives them the word...
...note that the Harvard Business School awarded Somoza with an honorary degree. Furthermore, while beans, corn and other key foodstuffs are in short supply in Nicaragua, significant amounts of the arable land in the nation are owned by U.S. corporations and used for cultivating cash crops, such as coffee, cotton and bananas. Most importantly, America must not forget the conclusion that then Congressman Edward Koch of New York reached last summer after the approval of military aid to the regime: "If we support Somoza by providing him with U.S. arms to repress his own people, then we become oppressors...
Mitchell portrays a variety of doomed efforts. In "Jericho," she sings of the birth of a love affair, hoping that this time she will be able to "keep the good feelings alive," where she failed in the past. In another song, "Cotton Avenue," she presents a young woman, preparing to go out dancing in the city on a warm summer night. She never says Cotton Avenue is fun--in fact, she describes it as a crowded, coldly sexual scene, where the men are out "hustling," sizing up the women. She goes there out of compulsion, out of the same need...