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Behind the lower U.S. price of a can of drip grind or a jar of instant lies a revolutionary new Brazilian coffee policy. For years Brazil operated as though it grew all the coffee in the world, refused to sell for less than its own pegged price, watched its markets and export income dwindle. Last year Brazil pulled out the peg, let prices seek their level, began selling hard. By August, coffee sales were setting records, and by last week the first two major effects could be plainly measured...
...jackdaw's cry. Now at the awkward age-22 -he has renounced rock 'n' roll for balladeering on the theory that "I have matured as a person." His latest album fails to prove that point, but at least it demonstrates that behind the old postnasal drip, a sweetly lyric set of pipes was growing all the time...
...Jungle-gym" designed by George Nelson, U.S. art at the Moscow exhibition is drawing upward of 20,000 people a day. Guards have a hard time keeping the crowd moving, not because people are impressed by the show so much as because puzzlement halts them. Jackson Pollock's drip picture called Cathedral stops visitors cold. "Where is the cathedral?" they ask. Andrew Wyeth's Children's Doctor and Edward Hooper's stark, vivid Lighthouse at Two Lights are the standout favorites. Among the sculptures on display, Gaston Lachaise's hugely curvaceous Standing Woman...
...tragedy" that the Characters demand be made out of their gnarled interrelationships would not be a good one, because tragedy is something more than an orchestration of the steady drip, drip of human misery. Even Pirandello, while giving their story more attention than it deserves, is more interested in their status as Characters and in their relation to the troupe of Actors upon whom they descend...
...console that is hooked into twelve three-story loudspeakers located about the rim of the planetarium, plus four bass speakers around the room. By turning a crank he can produce rings of sound racing smoothly about the dome's circumference. He can also make his sound tinkle and drip from side to side or leap in front of or behind an audience. Jacobs either uses taped works by other experimental electronics composers or pastes up his own random sounds to suit his taste...