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...seemed. Within hours of the Lodz settlement, sympathy strikes ended at the University of Warsaw and 19 other campuses. In the southeastern city of Rzeszów, meanwhile, a seven-week farmers' sit-in ended after government negotiators signed agreements with peasant leaders there and in nearby Ustrzyki Dolne. Just seven days after the new Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski had issued his dramatic appeal for "90 days of calm," peace, it seemed, had broken out on all labor fronts...
...conclusions of the tribunal were based on the testimony of representatives of peasant associations, trade unions, religious organizations and academic institutions of El Salvador. Cox said the jurors sent a letter to President Reagan and to the government in El Salvador, asking them to participate, but neither responded...
...long-awaited decision on Rural Solidarity last week, the Supreme Court executed a deft compromise that at first appeared to defuse a dangerous possible confrontation. Thousands of peasants from all over the country, many of them wearing colorful local costumes, had converged on Warsaw to hear the court's decision first hand. They sang and cheered as Walesa, sporting a short-brimmed peasant's cap, entered the gray stone court building to attend the hearing. He got a less enthusiastic reception when he emerged onto the steps five hours later to announce the court's verdict...
...symbolic meaning. This was particularly true of Van Gogh and of Gauguin, who eventually went to Tahiti in order to paint huge allegories of human fate. One sees this interest already in Brittany paintings like Woman in the Hay, an image drenched in anonymous sexuality, whose half-nude peasant woman sprawled on the hay is quoted directly from one of the female slaves in Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus. These early modernists were not, after all, deeply concerned with the future, as the avant-garde would be 30 years later. They saw themselves as prophets but obsessed, as prophets...
...love with dim-wit tenor. Serfs Up!'s Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail setting--with dozens of "thou's" thrown in--provides plenty of comic soil for puns to take root in; but it doesn't materially affect the stock Pudding plot--even if there is a peasant revolution, nasal lords and ladies, smelly peasants, and a trio of disco-dancing suits of armor...