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...most recent work, titled Farmers and currently displayed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, is not comic at all, but starkly tragic. It consists of a dozen or so limp, lifeless figures fashioned from corrugated cardboard. King ran up a pair of black cotton pajamas for each, made conical hats from brown wrapping paper, and tossed them all in a casual heap on the floor. "I wanted to make a point about Viet Nam," he says, "and this was something I could do in my own medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Telltale Gesture | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...comes in little glassine bags. It is a fine white, gray or brown powder, very bitter to the taste. The tools needed for an injection usually consist of a hypodermic syringe, often made from an eyedropper and a needle, a spoon or bottle cap (to dissolve the heroin), and cotton balls (to strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Symptoms of Youthful Addicition | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...time the Southern weather turns warm at the end of this month, farmers in Mississippi and Alabama will have their 1970 cotton crop in the ground and growing...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Black Southern Farmers Need Money To Buy Land in Mississippi for Co-Op | 3/10/1970 | See Source »

farming-last year the co-op raised cotton, soybeans, and vegetables on its initial 40 acres. The income from the cotton and soybeans will go toward repaying the $12,000 mortgage left on the land, while the vegetables were distributed to the families...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Black Southern Farmers Need Money To Buy Land in Mississippi for Co-Op | 3/10/1970 | See Source »

...acre farm, the co-op will devote most of the land to production of cash crops-cotton and soybeans-which will provide jobs for black workers and earn incomes to repay the farm's $250,000 total purchase price...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Black Southern Farmers Need Money To Buy Land in Mississippi for Co-Op | 3/10/1970 | See Source »

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