Word: grains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America. For the past 20 years his elaborately finished tempera paintings of the landscapes and neighbors around his winter farm in Pennsylvania and his summer house in Maine have become indistinguishable, for an enormous public, from a dream of vanished moral rectitude. Every split clapboard reveals the American grain; each shot deer and plucked blueberry suggests the frontier. The faces of Wyeth's cast of bucolic characters-the Kuerners in Pennsylvania, the Ericksons and Olsons in Maine -are almost as familiar, though less physiognomical, to his audience as those of Johnny Carson, Richard Nixon or Bugs Bunny. Moreover, everything...
...relations with Washington in the first place. The chances are that China's need for Western technology will grow as its economy expands, and though Peking now seems to have enough food, it will surely want to keep open its access to the world's best grain markets...
Ford got into the jam in the course of answering Frankel's question about whether the Soviets had the better of the U.S. in the grain sales and the 1975 Helsinki agreement, which confirmed the postwar boundaries of Eastern Europe. The President easily came up with justification for the grain deals but ran into trouble trying to defend the Helsinki pact. He has clearly demonstrated in the past that he understands the realities of Eastern Europe, and he apparently meant to say, as he did several sentences later, that the U.S. "does not concede that those countries are under...
...Butz was city-slickered by the Kremlin. The Soviets, dealing secretly with private companies and paying bargain rates for grain exports that were then subsidized by the Government, bought up 25% of the U.S. wheat crop, plus massive quantities of corn and soybeans. A Senate subcommittee charged Butz's department with "inept management" and "total lack of planning" in overseeing the deals. The resulting domestic food shortage-along with other factors-helped drive up retail food prices...
...takes up a previously forbidden subject-the blacklisting of showfolk suspected of Communist leanings during the early '50s-and has the nerve, and grace, to take an absurdist view of that deplorable era. For that, and for Woody Allen's fine performance (against his usual comic grain) in the title role, it deserves respectful attention...