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...society offers powerful temptations. Ob serves NIAAA'S Morris Chafetz: "There are houses where they don't even say anything to you when you come in the door before they ask, 'What will you have to drink?' " He also notes that "in our crazy-quilt value system, masculinity means that if you can hold a lot of alcohol and seemingly not show its effects, that's somehow a sign of strength." Chafetz points out that in some other countries-Italy and Israel, for example -drinking is an accepted social custom, but there is little alcoholism...
...crazy-quilt pop era that salutes everything from transvestite glitter and sadomasochism to Rocky Mountain fresh air and the Andrews Sisters, Wonder has managed the considerable task of establishing himself as both a hot commercial property and an authentic voice. Being black, blind and up from poverty entitles him, of course, to say that he has been there and back. A near-fatal auto accident outside Winston-Salem, N.C., last August has threatened to turn saga into legend. Stevie was riding in the front seat of his car when a log tore loose from a truck, crashed through the windshield...
...suggests Jasper Johns' flag paintings, but that is only an accident. Likewise, a deliciously anthropomorphic wool winder (see cut), with a human head and the hub of a decorated worm gear for its belly button, predicts the surreal wooden constructions of H.C. Westermann. And then there are the quilts. The best products of America's 19th century women quilt makers anticipate many of the formal devices and color systems of Op art and color-field painting. Seen with an unprejudiced eye, the snap and sparkle of the piecework Cactus Rose-pattern quilt of 1875 can reduce...
...Ferris wheel arcs into the blue sky over beyond the livestock barns; a lemon-shake stand squeezes between a tractor exhibit and the milking parlor; on your left, the Pleasantville Community School stage band is warming up for a concert, and over there, an hour from now, the quilt-making demonstrations will begin. Pick up some cotton candy along...
...unaccustomed calm falls over the fairgrounds. Fairgoers somehow find their cars in the mammoth parking lot, load in the family and drive out the gates back to their own lives. Out side the fair, there are harder choices than whether to see the milking contest or the quilt making, and the world of blue ribbons, cotton candy and lemon shakes is something fanciful and far away. Until next year, at least, and the return of the best state fair in the state...