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...point, Saldivar said the student made the incorrect assumption that Saldivar's parents were migrant grape farmers...
...gumboot dance, which consists of clapping and stomping, is a recreational activity as well as a medium in which migrant workers in Africa voiced protest and kept up morale while away from their homes, Mwangi said...
Five years later, Malick followed his lavishly praised debut with the studio-financed Days of Heaven, an opaque allegory about migrant farm workers in Texas on the eve of World War I. It is so lyrically beautiful and narratively elliptical that its cast, which included Richard Gere and Sam Shepard, was upstaged by a field of wheat--which might sound like a knock on the film but is really a tribute to the quiet, meditative power of its best moments, of its preoccupation with the verities of the natural world. As one might assume from that description, Days of Heaven...
...many countries have been fitted with the Jaipur foot. "Western aid agencies have helped millions of amputees, and they've found that they can't do it as cheaply as with the Jaipur foot," says Sethi. In India most of the 72,000 amputees wearing the prosthesis were migrant laborers injured while trying to hitch free rides by clinging to train roofs and windows. During their long journeys to the harvests, many of these workers slipped off the trains and were run over...
DIED. HORACE BRISTOL, 88, LIFE photojournalist who traveled with Steinbeck to chronicle the migrant workers who inspired The Grapes of Wrath; in Ojai, Calif. When his wife committed suicide in 1956, Bristol destroyed many of his negatives and abandoned his profession until the 1980s...