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Anyone defining schlemiel and schlimazel should consult a Yiddish lexicon or A New Leaf. Traditionally, a schlemiel is a person who spills the soup; a schlimazel is the one on whom he spills it. In this film the schlemiel is Henrietta (Elaine May). The schlimazel is Henry (Walter Matthau...
...fishing village called Edo, now the site of modern Tokyo. Their gloomy castles with gloomy interiors needed an especially sumptuous kind of decoration. Screen painters like Kaihō Yushō supplied it. Yushō's Fish Nets, with its jagged forms of dark blue sea and gold-leaf land, traversed by the swooping rhythms of the nets strung out to dry on poles, transforms an everyday sight into an event of monumental starkness and beauty. Fish Nets alludes to the passage of the seasons by showing reeds at different stages of growth, from spring on the extreme right...
Given a combination of abundant rain, warm sunshine and winds in April, the Southern corn leaf blight that reduced last year's corn harvest in the U.S. by 10% could devastate the 1971 crop by as much as 50%. Already salesmen in the nation's corn belt are bootlegging blight-resistant seed at high prices...
...material. Once they found themselves stuck with thousands of copies of a volume on federal taxes; changes in the law had made the work obsolete. "The thing to do," Ettinger recalled, "was to bring out a book that would not go out of date." The result was a loose-leaf-bound book, an innovation that propelled the company into the big time...
...move clearly put Israel on the spot. Al Ahram Editor Mohammed Hassanein Heikal wrote in his weekly column from Cairo: "Egypt's diplomacy has stripped the Israeli position of all cover-including the fig leaf." Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin was summoned home from Washington last week in order to explain current U.S. attitudes to the Cabinet...