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...Please Don't Walk Around in the Nude, we are touched by Feydeau's comic madness from the outset. Ventroux (Phil Kirby), a French politician, is trying to explain to his wife, Clarisse (Nancy Cotton), that it is indecent for their son to see her wearing only her slip. She doesn't understand what is wrong with this or, for that matter, with her being seen in her nightgown by household servants, peeping-tom neighbors, and even Hochepaix, the mayor of a nearby town. The play's central conflict is caused when Clarisse's ingenuous and disputable logic meets...
...near record yields, making 1981 probably the most productive year in U.S. farm history. Unfortunately, all that abundance knocked the bottom out of prices. Corn, the nation's biggest cash crop, dropped from $3.60 per bu. in the Chicago market to $2.60 by year's end. Cotton sometimes sold as low as 350 per Ib.-but it was costing farmers 600 per Ib. to produce...
...biting Texas panhandle wind flung dirt into their weather-creased faces, some 50 solemn cotton farmers met near the town of Tulia (pop. 5,033) last week for a ritual as sorrowful as a wake. They were there to cast reluctant bids on the well-worn tools and machinery with which Dan Altman, 65, and his son Danny, 34, had scratched out an increasingly difficult living in a way they loved: farming 1,440 acres of irrigated land. The buyers were ambivalent. They were seeking bargains, but they hated to see the Altmansget hurt. And each feared that...
...their three children quite comfortably. When Danny got out of the Army in 1969, father and son leased another 1,120 acres. For a few years they managed to build up some savings. But their expenses began to rise steeply in 1972, while the price they got for their cotton fell. Still, they hung on. Then, in 1980, came a disastrous drought. Dan Sr., who was back farming his original 320 acres, was able to break even. Danny, working the other 1,120 acres, lost...
Last year cotton, which had brought 800 per Ib. in the panhandle in 1980, dropped to less than 400. Danny grossed $60,000-but he had borrowed $86,000 from the Farmers Home Administration for planting, irrigation, fertilizer and insecticides. Danny let the hired hand go, and Frieda went into the fields with her husband, helping with irrigation, cultivation and planting. Nevertheless, they lost...