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...emptive sort of subjectivism in contemporary criticism. Here, the critic assumes that his job is to smell out the con. So what he likes he deems "real art," what he doesn't is "anti-art" or "non-art." But this means that when a certain critic goes against the grain of the general consensus and pronounces something "bad" already determined by the others to be "good," he is not only panning a specific work but he is broadcasting the fact that his colleagues have been hoodwinked, taken in by a fraud. For instance, Pauline Kael raves about Tango in Paris...
...comfortable agricultural surpluses that in the past kept American food prices relatively low compared to prices in the rest of the world may, in fact, be gone forever. According to the General Accounting Office, the $1 billion sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union last fall was by far the biggest cause in lifting the price of American wheat by 100%, to $3 a bushel, and led to increases in the cost of flour and bread. On top of that, the GAO reports, the Agriculture Department made things worse by paying $300 million in subsidies to keep the selling...
...Administration officials argue that they had little choice. Demand for U.S. soybeans and other feed grains has gone through the roof, largely because increasingly affluent foreigners are buying more meat, and overseas sources of feed have declined because of bad weather (see following story). As a result, domestic feed supplies have grown scarce, and prices have zoomed as grain farmers, speculators, wholesalers and other middlemen tried for the fattest prices they could get. In Georgia and Illinois, for example, soybean meal in the past year has leaped from $100 to $400 a ton, and fish meal has gone from...
...dairy products could develop by August. Herrell DeGraff, president of the American Meat Institute, predicts that beef supplies could well grow leaner and costlier by early winter. Cattlemen are avoiding oppressive feed prices by letting their steers fatten on grass, a process that takes about 90 days longer than grain feeding...
...arriving in generous amounts -sorghum and grain along with $24 million in other aid from the U.S., plus a total of $50 million from the U.N., Russia, China, and the Common Market countries. But matters are often so desperate that grain for cattle is eaten by people, while critical breeding stock is slaughtered for meat. Existing livestock-mostly sheep, goats and camels -have chewed up all the food cover in sight, and the ecological balance has been so savaged that experts say recovery of the land's food-generating potential may be as much as 30 years away...