Word: cottons
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...rustling about Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. Former President Clinton--who really should go home and write his book--has been dropping Hillary hints for several weeks now; the Senator herself insisted on posting Run-Hill-Run e-mail on her website until last Friday. This is self-promotional cotton candy. The junior Senator from New York is, if nothing else, disciplined. She knows she needs to spend time bulking up her resume, especially on national security issues--it's no accident she lobbied for a place on the Senate Armed Services Committee. As for Gore, he is extremely smart...
...Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, but few of his songs were hard-driving rave-ups. I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues--these are, if anything, contemporary folk songs. Cash sang of specific injustices and eternal truths; he was the deadpan poet of cotton fields, truck stops and prisons. He was a balladeer, really, a spellbinding storyteller--a witness, in the Christian sense of the word. Here was a man who knew the Commandments because he had broken so many of them...
...born into adversity, in 1932, as the fourth of five children of farmers in Kingsland, Ark. For his family, as with others in the Depression-wracked area, cotton was the Cash crop. "We planted cotton in the spring, and we picked it in the fall," says Merline Hall, 77, a childhood friend of the Cash children. "And you used your fingers. There were not any [mechanical] pickers back then. At least, none of us had one." She recalls John as "a good kid" who sang (while his mother Carrie played piano) at the Central Baptist Church...
...materials, achieving exceptional nuances of texture, translucence and sheen. In addition to oil and watercolor, he worked with chalk, charcoal, pastels, colored pencils, wax color, tempera, varnishes, gypsum, poster paints and colored paste. He used them, in varying combinations and often in several layers, on coarse paper, parchment, newsprint, cotton, linen, gauze, burlap, cardboard, plaster and plywood. Ever the master colorist, he conjured up an eerie, otherworldly radiance, as in Masks at Twilight, by combining black, milky blue and muddy reddish-brown. The spellbinding A Gate shimmers with silvery moonlight, created with white and gray tempera washes on black-painted...
...After four hours of trawling, the mission is all but accomplished. The spoils: a black leather blouson jacket from M. Bogen & Sons of Boston (asking price: 2,000 baht, or $49; final purchase price: 1,200 baht); a pair of olive-green U.S. Army cotton fatigues (700 baht, bargained down to 400); a pair of well-worn Levi's 501s (800 baht, down to 650); a "Made in Hawaii" rayon aloha shirt with coconut-shell buttons (1,000 baht, down to 700); a Lee denim jacket (600 baht, down to 400); a black canvas belt?very Helmut Lang (fixed price...