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Claude Trembly, leader of a group of grain workers on strike against ADM/Ogilvie in Montreal, said through an interpreter that workers in both Canada and the United States face similar problems...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Union Holds Rally | 2/25/1995 | See Source »

...Nolde was in the field of printmaking. Working with sporadic intensity, Nolde experimented with colors, painting techniques, materials and papers. He often etched directly onto his metal plates, which created frayed edges and scenes, as in "The Steamer--large, dark" (1910) of velvety mist. In his woodcuts, even the grain of the wood was used to simulate textures...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: MFA Show Escapes To Nolde's Exotic World | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...political note: Granola types, who wouldn't sport a fur coat if their tempeh and grain medley depended on it, regularly hit the scene in these conspicuous coils of Real Fur. As Alexander Barylski '96, proud Hat wearer for four years, commented, "No one's spray-painted these Hats, yet." These Hats can do no wrong...

Author: By Maika R. Pollack, | Title: Big Hairy Russian Intellectual Hats | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...Song says she has felt a need to go againstthe grain...

Author: By Michael M. Luo, | Title: Breaking Asian-Americans the Mold | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

...planet's farmers are hard pressed to feed 5.7 billion people -- and nearly 100 million newborns each year. So it was more than welcome news when the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute announced a new strain of rice that yields as much as 25% more grain per acre than existing plants do. Once disease and insect resistance have been bred into the rice, a process expected to take about five years, the miracle grain will be set to join the fight against hunger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Environment of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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