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...galley, the French contingent's well-meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served. Her passengers whooped with ungallant laughter. In Gaylesburg, Ill., to tour Secretary of Agriculture John Block's 3,000-acre farm, Mitterrand donned rubber boots, a farmer's cap and a sky-blue jacket with MR. PRESIDENT stitched over the heart. He and Block disagreed about American exports undercutting European Community farmers, but Mitterrand lightened the mood by driving a tractor and cuddling a piglet with black-and-white markings. Said he: "Our pigs tend...
...able to leave their lethal city stay on? When asked if he will flee, Moyse responds, "To where?" Many residents have learned to tune out the chaos, though that gift carries its peril. Caught in the middle of a blazing gun battle near the Beirut airport, an old farmer continued to till his tiny plot. Afterward, when asked why he did not seek cover, he replied, "If I waited for the fighting to stop, I would never get the soil ready for planting. The seasons don't stop for wars." In its own weary, puzzling, stubborn way, neither does...
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...They are authentic, uplifting Americana-folksy, but never cute or dismissive. He looks for people, sometimes whole communities, who have offbeat pursuits or experiences, and he takes them seriously. He seeks "stories that confirm that this is a remarkable country." Over the years, Kuralt has profiled an Iowa farmer who built a yacht in his barnyard, a retired West Virginia coal miner who sculpts statuary in coal, and the arcane Florida ritual of "worm grunting," catching bait with the use of wooden stakes and truck springs. Some day, Kuralt vows, he will get around to a piece that Bleckman wants...
...three strongest works on display: Husbandry by Patrick Tovatt. Les (Ray Fry) is an endangered species: the independent farmer who loves the land and rotates his crops, scrabbling for survival. Now he is tired and just about broke, ready to extend "the chain of stewardship, or better yet, of husbandry" to his son Harry (Ken Jenkins), who works in a city parks department. Les' wife (Gloria Cromwell) demands this sacrifice-fulfillment from her son; Harry's wife (Deborah Hedwall) denounces it. The play simmers so gently for so long, as each potential confrontation is deflected with Chekovian shrugs...