Word: homespun
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...Homespun Cotton. "I take ideas from others," says Méndez Arceo. "I must enrich myself from others." But he adds touches of his own. For liturgical ceremonies, he wears only homespun cotton vestments and carries a plain wooden shepherd's crook; otherwise he just wears a baggy black clerical suit on his 6-ft. 2 in. frame, unembellished by either a pectoral cross or episcopal ring. His book-cluttered residence is staffed only by volunteer students; nearby nuns send in his meals. He spends much of the time each week rocketing around the dusty roads of his diocese...
...witted, humble and loving and Mom (Estelle Evans) is a gentle, worldly-wise philosopher who works as a domestic. Newt (Kyle Johnson) is about as likely an adolescent hero as Andy Hardy, waking Mom up in the middle of the night and listening wide-eyed as she dispenses such homespun homilies as "This town ain't all a good place and it ain't all a bad place. It's like the fruit on a tree -some's good, some...
...model productions are revolutionary in more than one sense. All the traditional elements of Peking opera except the singing have disappeared. Antiseptic plots portray the struggles of workers, peasants and soldiers against landlords and imperialists. The performers, appearing in subdued makeup and homespun cotton garments, substitute unadorned realism for symbolic ritual. The scores are laden with inspirational hymns and martial effects...
Joanna Pettet stands by-wholesome in homespun-to bind up his wounds. So does Karl Maiden as her drunken father, the country doctor. But Stamp is perfectly able to take care of himself; it is the movie that ups and dies...
...tool of the socialist apocalypse, was simply the proliferation of stultifying jobs. Yet the descendants of Morris' socialist working men have now settled for the machine-made blessings of the welfare state, stultifying or not. They would sooner be caught in drag than dancing on the greensward in homespun or chipping gargoyles on a cathedral...