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...more than 400 years, some of the world's best opium poppies have been grown in Turkey. The Turks use the seed for cooking oil and food seasoning, the stalk for fuel and animal fodder. From the pod they extract raw opium for the making of medicinal morphine. Currently, the poppy provides the main source of income for 80,000 farmers and earns Turkey about $5,000,000 per year in foreign exchange...
...held and handled as integral parts of the action. Giant effigies from Lenny's pain-filled mind loom and dangle suddenly into the set: Dracula, Jackie Kennedy, Little Orphan Annie, Richard Nixon. Even Hitler (in five-foot boots) and Eichmann (in his glass booth) stalk in for a turn. Some of the visual hyperbole misfires-notably an inchoate anti-church mélange with Moses and Christ turning up unfortunately as a couple of naked men in plastic bottles...
...proved to be a mismatch. Russia poured in experts, goods and equipment with little idea what Cuba needed. The Cubans in turn expected miracles from their new ally and banked on fancy experts to solve their problems for them. But when Karushchev's new cane cutting-machines mangled every stalk they touched, it became obvious that these experts and their machines were just Russian bears. Their pre-set ideas of development based on an Eastern European model could not help agrarian Cuba...
...anger and frustration that might otherwise fester within and poison the self. But the divorced person shadowboxes with a vivid phantom, the past. He or she is bound to an enemy that cannot be hit or flattened-memory. For the divorced, recollection is impacted pain. Regrets, bitterness, envy, hate stalk the mind...
...none other than King Edward VII out on a lark. There were other shows and later movies where he did war-dance bits and attacked wagon trains. "I am not ungrateful for what the white man has given me," says Chief Red Fox, "but the ghosts of my ancestors stalk me at times in the dark and congregate around me when I meditate in solitude...