Word: ruralism
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...Fridous Abu Tofic is learning simple arithmetic along with 295 other preschoolers because the movement opened a day-care center in Nima, a Muslim enclave in one of Accra's poorest and most neglected neighborhoods. 31st December runs tree-planting programs, immunizes children, offers family-planning services and initiates rural-development projects. Once funded by foreign donors, it now gets 95% of its operating funds from income-generating programs, one of which provides the army with bread and a local staple called kenkey. The movement, claiming some 1.5 million members, even produces a children's television program. "We have changed...
...common lessons here that any African nation can learn: free-market economics works, including privatization, entrepreneurship and often the stern measures of wholesale reform to jump-start failed economies. So does agricultural self-sufficiency, starting from the bottom up. And decentralization, spreading development outside urban capitals to the vast rural majority. And women's empowerment...
...depth; as a study of spiritual crisis, it falls short. Robert Duvall has long wanted to make (and star in) this intimate epic about a preacher forced to reappraise his life when he commits a crime and is compelled to leave his Texas flock for a mysterious calling in rural Louisiana. Duvall doesn't acquit himself at all, either as an actor or as a filmmaker. But he coaxed true performances from Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, John Beasley and June Carter Cash. But the fine supporting cast does not have much to do. Every scene, every frame...
...black paper cut-outs form a series of approximately life-size silhouettes staged in a dream-like setting that ranges from rural plantations to stylized gardens. The images of the exhibit move like a dream, occasionally implying a broken chronology, or continuing a narrative through head gestures of the silhouettes. Many of Walker's images combine stereotypes of the devilish, animalistic black American with allusions to the folklore of the "happy darky" who entertains whites and enjoys subservience. The result: the exhibit achieves, in Walker's words, a "reinactment [sic] of history in the arena of desire...
...China, a "bicycle economy" that must keep pedaling fast to absorb all the workers being put on the street by cutbacks in the civil service and state industries. Estimates of the number of unemployed run as high as 142 million, 12 million in the cities and the rest in rural areas. Tensions caused by layoffs and other wrenching social changes were cast in stark relief three weeks ago, when the Wuhan bomb explosion killed 16 and wounded 30. Suspects include both disgruntled workers and Muslim separatists...