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...English lord on tour of the U.S. in the early 19th century, was captured by the Indians and treated as a slave. He proved his mettle and finally became one of the tribe by enduring all manner of tests and initiation rites, including a ceremony in which he was strung up by his pectorals. Manhood through pain and all that. The Sioux apparently set great store by such things...
...remorseless doubles player once had a standard set of pregame excuses printed up on cards and handed them out to his weekend opposition in the form of a check-off list. Among his selections: Sunday-morning hangover; ill-strung racquet; soggy tennis balls...
Hinds took up rope jumping as exercise in the late 1950s. In 1970 he began fashioning ropes in his basement to hand out to clients as favors. He strung little cylinders on a line to create a more stable jump rope that is resistant to twisting and swaying. Two years ago, he borrowed $30,000 and recruited family and friends to begin turning out ropes in volume. Today Hinds fills monthly orders averaging 200,000 ropes, all made-for a 23? piecework wage-by physically and mentally handicapped people recommended by seven "opportunity centers" in Madison. Hinds nets a neat...
...declared unsafe, looked like a gigantic refugee center. Fearful of further shocks, millions of residents set up temporary housekeeping in parks and streets; some 3,000 foreign residents camped in the courtyards and on the tennis courts of their embassies. Cooking utensils and beds were brought out, wash lines strung from pillars to posts, and mosquito nets slung over tree branches. Some Chinese fashioned lean-tos by resting raw lumber against walls, others by cutting down tree branches; at least one family settled down for the duration in a section of a huge drainpipe...
...background material. This well-intentioned but overproduced exhibition attempts to present the vision of men and women who came to the U.S. as immigrants in the past 100 years. There are over 200 works by 67 artists−no more than a handful by any one person−strung out between way stations of information about immigration quotas and the rise of the Third Reich, sum-ups of the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. The result is an assault upon both the mind and the eye. The frenzy of impressions obscures, unintentionally perhaps, the weakness in the show...