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...most provocative news of medical needlework came from the congress' French president, Dr. Roger de la Füye: "I affirm that acupuncture, professionally administered the evening or morning before a sporting match, will increase the performance of a champion. These same punctures, administered by a veterinarian acupuncturist to a horse 20 minutes before the race, are capable of 'doping' sprinters, trotters or jumpers in a clean and legal manner, and giving them a clear advantage...
...temporarily reduce the fine arts to a dust heap." Established Revolutionaries. Actually, Sir Kenneth and his council panel have kept a pretty fair balance between new & old. Their program has included makes tions of Picasso ceramics and "Young Contemporaries," but also shows of Rem brandt, Rowlandson and even needlework...
...arrived clutching the address of relatives, moved in with them until they found jobs and an apartment, then sent for husband and children. Often, parents, brothers & sisters followed. In New York City, it was easy for the Puerto Rican woman to find a job. Garment factories valued their skilled needlework; housewives sought them as domestics...
Anything served Artist-Philosopher Klee for bricks. Starting around 1900 with meticulous etchings and realistic portraits, he was soon collecting ideas for paintings from needlework, mosaics, carpets, runic stones, the scrawls of children and madmen. No matter how simple the material he borrowed, his perceptive, neurotic vision transformed it into something immeasurably sophisticated. He experimented endlessly with techniques, scratched designs on blackened glass, painted on burlap, mixed his media until it was impossible to describe a painting as oil, watercolor or tempera...
...cooperation with local authorities and the Ministries of Labor and Education, the Institute will offer training courses for domestics. Aspirants for the Institute diploma, if they are over 18, will be schooled in budgeting, needlework, cooking, laundry work, house repairs, etc. Those under 18 will take a stiffer course in the same subjects, and will receive further instruction in cultural matters, so that they may improve their increased leisure time...