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...lost. It was the site of a 1941 murder that obsessed the British essayist and critic for a decade. By the time Connolly died in 1974, he had come tantalizingly close to finding the answer to the question that had mesmerized two generations of colonial society: Who shot Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland...
...most helpless casualties are 87 million sheep and 14 million cattle that have been left high and dry on 74,000 ravaged farms. Some farmers are selling $20 sheep for as little as 10?. Others, trying to keep their stock, are buying hay at five times the regular price. Ranchers in southwest Queensland have sent some 350,000 sheep to healthier pastures in the north; in Victoria and South Australia, hardened farmers with tears in their eyes have shot more than 100,000 aging animals they had bred for years. Sums up Cattleman Geoff McLeod: "We have got the backside...
...lovely pretending." American audiences will have their first chance to see her pretending in The Gift, a French farce due out in March. As the going-away present given to a retiring banker by his office chums, Goldsmith is a dimpled, tousled-haired romp in the hay who might just finish off the gold-watch industry...
TIME'S Yankelovich poll underlines the point. Some 73% of the respondents believed that the computer revolution would enable more people to work at home. But only 31 % said they would prefer to do so themselves. Most work no longer involves a hay field, a coal mine or a sweatshop, but a field for social intercourse. Psychologist Abraham Maslow defined work as a hierarchy of functions: it first provides food and shelter, the basics, but then it offers security, friendship, "belongingness." This is not just a matter of trading gossip in the corridors; work itself, particularly in the information industries...
...look hard enough, you can find every conceivable type of holiday item in the shop. But while browsing, let the buyer beware. Step on one section of carpet in the corner of the candle room, and you'll trigger a whole manger scene--complete with music, lights, hay, and even a flying angel--on one side of the room. A lifesize model child sleeps in a bed in the middle of one room, and in another corner, the likeness of Santa himself snoozes in his rocker...