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...problem for artists who did not want to follow the usual pattern of expatriation was how to be both modern and at the same time American. Most modern American art from the teens and '20s had a homemade, do-it-yourself, rule-of-thumb look. Arthur Dove's was no exception, and some of his paintings, particularly in the mid-'30s, poignantly suggest an imagination hobbled by its lack of prototypes. But a certain naiveté and brusqueness were, in any case, bound up with Dove's sense of aesthetic probity. It was part of what...
...Virginia mines. When he started out at age 13, he loaded coal for 17? per ton-earning about $4.40 a day. Companies then forced miners to buy then-own picks, shovels and other equipment and did not even provide fans to blow away the coal dust. Echard lost a thumb coupling coal cars and injured his back three times. Yet he encouraged his grandson to get into the mines. "I told him it was a good job," says Echard. "Coal's the thing of the future...
...long-term contracts and put more upward pressure on utility bills, steel prices and the cost of chemicals. Miller, in his first big bargaining test as U.M.W. president, has no margin for moderation. He runs the risk that his fractious rank and file members will thumb down any agreement he signs...
...average monthly wage for an African is 7 rand ($9.80). South Africa has the world's largest hanging rate, with 118 executed in 1968 alone. The passbook has been called the pillar of apartheid, the main tool with which the white-ruling clique keeps the African majority under its thumb...
...next move was potentially the most dangerous: if the clot had been as big as the end of a man's thumb, as some are, it could have caused a complete blockage of the great artery through which blood is pumped from the heart to the lungs. The result would have been a dramatic collapse of the patient and perhaps sudden death. Smaller clots usually produce only minor local lung damage...