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...Grain ripening in the sun and rustling in the wind. Moving through it, stately figures dressed in black, the men bearded, the women wearing long dresses. The image is out of 19th century rural life. Certainly it is not what one expects to see at the beginning of a movie that takes up, among other 20th century matters, a drug-related murder and police corruption...
...When I was on the Lampoon there were people becoming lawyers with good sense of humor, doctors with good senses of humor, etc. Now I see people giving seniors thought to writing comedy, which before the 60's was going against the grain," says Beard, co-founder of the National Lampoon...
...trauma is hardly in evidence in The Grain of the Voice, a collection of interviews that appeared in various journals from 1962 to 1980; what is in evidence is the voice of Roland Barthes, preserved and displayed: "We have embalmed our speech like a mummy, to preserve it forever." Yet an important difference exists--no death has occurred, nor will it ever. The voice, though disembodied, continues to speak, familiar, reassuring, exasperated and sometimes exasperating...
...serious problems facing the American farmer is the strength of the dollar, which is making American agricultural products too expensive in world markets. U.S. farm exports last year were off 13%, to $38 billion, compared with a record $43.8 billion in 1981. Cargill, one of the world's largest grain traders, has shown in recent weeks how topsy-turvy world agricultural trade has become. The company briefly considered buying Argentine wheat at $113 a ton and selling it to U.S. flour mills. Even with about $19- per-ton freight charges and $8-a-ton duty, the Argentine product would have...
...guerrillas insist that such tactics have contributed heavily to the famine. Even before the drought began, they maintain that half a million Eritreans had been uprooted by the civil war, while thousands of others were unable to plant or store grain. Says Amdemicael Kahsai, a member of the E.P.L.F.'s central committee: "The famine is here because of the way in which the government is trying to resolve its political problems. The lack of rain has just aggravated things." The guerrillas claim that some 3.8 million people in Tigre are affected by the famine, along with 2 million in Eritrea...