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...Memorial Graveyard, where the rich totemic significance of the breed has been celebrated since Sept. 4, 1937, the day Troop, a coon dog of towering integrity, breathed his last. Key Underwood, who owned Troop and loved him like a son, put the dog in a 6-ft.-long cotton-picker's sack and brought him out here to the piney woods in the northwestern corner of Alabama and buried him in a hole 3 ft. deep. Then he got a rock, and with a hammer and a screwdriver and cold chisel he etched out a cross and Troop's name...
...with better humor for Jack Nicholson in PRIZZI'S HONOR (Sack Copley Place). At first glance he plays the amiable Mafia hit man as simply as he slips into his Brooklyn accent, but his animated face and agile acting reveal a character far more likeable and intriguing than some cotton-mouthed thug...
Nelson, who grew up on a small Texas cotton farm, knows how hard it is to get money to those who need it. In August he met with 50 farmers to discuss what to do with the proceeds. One plan is to apportion the money among the states, but there is still much confusion about where it would go from there. Said Nelson: "A lot of good ideas, and we took 'em all down...
...disease partakes, so to speak, of the prestige of the infinite. AIDS becomes a dramatically targeted refinement of the doctrine that all disease is a form of God's retribution upon fallen and sinful man. "Sickness is in fact the whip of God for the sins of many," said Cotton Mather. AIDS renews in many minds, sometimes in an almost unconscious way, questions of the problem of sin: Is there sin? Against whom? Against what? Is sex sometimes a sin? Why? And what kind...
...more deeply rooted in my time than the politicians." After half a century, Schwitters' constructions, which include every kind of urban detritus--the crumpled sides of a child's tin train, theater tickets, cigarette packs, fragments of type and stenciled numbers, snatches from headlines and posters, feathers, wisps of cotton wool and gauze for atmospheric effect, wheels, burlap, glass, photos, a shooter's target with a neat group punched in the bull's-eye and, after his emigration to England on the eve of World War II, part of a food-ration book--are emblems of their changing times, sharp...