Word: millet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS because the making of the Women's Movement was in the middle class--maybe good, maybe bad--the most vocal of the lot are most always middle class. But why are these most vocal women most always New Yorkers? From Steinem to Millet to Firestone; it's a checklist of New Yorkers. Now as far as anybody knows, the women problem is no worse in New York than anywhere else; neither is the movement, which has gone moreorless grassroots, headquartered there. Maybe the brains of the revolution have cached a reserve army underground in the city? Maybe to survive...
Swollen Stomachs. The prognosis for Ethiopia and the sub-Saharan countries is for an equally grim and dry new year. The little rain that did fall this year came late and ended early, preventing a full fall harvest of millet and sorghum that might have saved some lives Relief efforts are continuing, and in Ethiopia some food is belatedly getting to the impoverished northern provinces But in the refugee camps thousands of children with matchstick legs, protruding ribs and swollen stomachs continue to die of malnutrition. A new woe was added last week when swarms of locusts began eating their...
...They were shocked to find that the Chinese have hiked their prices up to or even above world market scales. Rugs were up 200% over a year ago, and antiques and jade are going for 40% to 300% more than last year. The price of mao-tai, the potent millet liquor, has soared to $28 a bottle-more than twice the price of Chivas Regal...
...piled on each other, suggest a mound of bureaucratic rubbish, while pedestrians and lean dogs pass by. Automobile stamps mix with crocodile stamps in the wide space of squares or freeways; a dozen painters with easels pursue a dozen renderings of a peasant couple taken from a painting by Millet...
...hours plowing the stony earth while his wife cleans their two-room hut, then joins him in the fields. A member of a 300-man production team-one of six on the commune-he will then have to face three hours in the field before a brief lunch of millet, sorghum and tea. Then it is back to the fields until sundown. Before supper-occasionally it may include meat, chicken or some other delicacy-there may be time for the peasant to work on his private plot of land, on which he grows vegetables to vary the family diet...