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...except for Gay who went out in the fields and disappeared, ducking under the stopped bank of a rock-banked rivulet) piled into Peg's overgrown, galvanized bathtub which sits smack in the middle of a lush, green rice paddy of a field like any other of the 1600 acres worth of fields on Pegleg's piece of land except it's where it is and not lost out in the real boonies of this vacant land--all of us getting all hot and drippy from the water bubbling in from the source (up 100 yards from the white bearded...
Kafatou said Peg McCarter, member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and another organizer of the concert, will answer questions about Quilapayun's current plans and U.S. -Chile relations at the press conference...
...elsewhere. For the past 15 years, every literate person in Europe and the U.S. has been molded by the incessant pressure of propaganda about art as a commodity: by museums which flaunt their directorial machismo by advertising the prices of their million-dollar acquisitions; by witless journalists whose only peg for discussing art is its price; by collectors who grub for investment; and by the horde of dealers, ranging from the little sharks to the dignified auction-room gents with faces like silver teapots, who have striven to give art the primary function of bullion. The present epidemic...
...disciple." She then criticizes the film for straying from a strict Laingian analysis and plunges in the final stake by rejecting the movie because she rejects Laing's view of society. Kael has simply missed the point. She tries to transform Cassavetes's film into a celluloid peg and cram it into a neat intellectual hole. But the movie doesn't fit and neither does the man. Neither is quite so neat, articulate or peggable...
...policymakers want to remove gold from the world monetary system altogether. A start was made last week when monetary officials agreed to peg Special Drawing Rights (money created out of thin air by the International Monetary Fund) to the value of 16 world currencies rather than to gold. The move may transmute the yellow metal into a simple commodity for industrial users and speculators-whose numbers may soon include U.S. citizens...