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...Ukegawa Brothers Inc., a large tomato grower in northern San Diego County. Says Chris Hartmire, an assistant to the president of the United Farm Workers of America: "The Ukegawa workers are living on the ground, under trees, under shrubs, in makeshift huts. They're in a semi-slave situation." The workers bathe in irrigation canals and often drink contaminated water...
...films are then sometimes--as happened with A Slave of Love, the last Soviet film to make it big in the United States--installed in an "art house" like the Welles, where they often play for quite a long time...
There are few big laughs in Oblomov, but it has something of the sotto voce subversiveness that Director Nikita Mikhalkov brought to A Slave of Love, his study of early Russian film makers. He knows how to generate moral and intellectual tension in unlikely places, how to speak for individuality in a place where it is not highly valued. In short, he is an artist-and a fine one. -By Richard Schickel
...heroism, Carney, who had been born a slave in Norfolk, became the first black to win the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...Edenic spaces and immense natural wealth, with its extraordinary freedom from the stultifications of caste and poverty, the place seemed born in luck. Or so it appeared to the white Europeans who settled the continent, if not to the Indians they violently displaced or the Africans they imported in slave ships to work the plantations. Americans eventually made the mistake of describing their national luck as their "manifest destiny." In any case, America became the place where the world came to get lucky. Americans believed in the splendidly transforming powers of luck in their land. Men born in poverty made...