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Dreyfus appears to have responses prepared for current council issues as well, ranging from Living Wage ("I have never felt that the old barter economy, when wages in the form of sheep and goats were in fact 'living,' is something we should return to," he says) to a termbill fee increase ("Increasing it to $50 smacks of tokenism," he claims, suggesting that the whole of each student's yearly tuition go directly to the council...
...David Walker. Whether outfitting a corps of ballerinas or of mice, his costumes are spectacular. Particularly amusing is Mother Ginger (Tony Collins) in his last transvestite performance after 34 years as the massive lady with eight children tucked away under her skirt. And the four children dressed as marzipan sheep are just cute enough to elicit some gasps otherwise forbidden in the restrained world of ballet audience protocol...
...Wages are generally in the form of money which is generally in paper form, or in coins occasionally, and more oftenly in the electronic form which is in a bank somewhere and by definition these forms are not living. In the past wages were paid in sheep and camels and things that were in fact living, but I think we moved beyond that and I don't think we should like go backwards towards the whole barter economic systems...
...parents studied biochemistry at the University of California. Back in France, he refused to do his military service and dropped out of Bordeaux University to immerse himself in various leftist political and ecological movements. In 1975 he and his wife decided to move to the country, take up sheep farming and join a local peasant movement against the planned extension of an army base in southern France. Arrested for "invading" the base during a 1976 protest, Bove spent three weeks in prison but had the satisfaction of seeing the military project canceled five years later...
...film, Iree echoed Kennedy's faith in tradition. "My grandmother quilted from sheep's wool, my mama quilted, now I quilt and so will my daughter," she said...