Word: volk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sell for more than $75 at such trendy New York stores and boutiques as Bendel and Henry Lehr; U.S.-made baggies are cheaper. Bloomingdale's reports that it has sold almost 5,000 of the new jeans at $38 to $58 a pair since August. Says Buyer Susan Volk: "We haven't had something that exploded like this since I have been with the store." In Miami, a buyer for Burdines who caught the fever while visiting New York has been scurrying to reorder the saggy slacks for several weeks...
...Gunther Volk...
...consequence the exhibition of 80 paintings made over the past five years by peasant workers in Huhsien county, Shensi province, which just opened at the Brooklyn Museum and will travel to San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston throughout 1978, is not only interesting but instructive. These bright-colored, Volk-ish scenes of collective labor, with their clear and pretty patterns, are, in fact, like posters a prime form of political instruction in China. As the catalogue remarks, they exemplify "the abolition of the distinction between manual workers and brain workers." How complete this erasure has been the show makes...
After the wild applause there was sudden silence: a pause of anticipation, and die volk were not disappointed. Within a minute the Prime Minister had gained the first murmurs of acclaim; within five minutes he had brought the crowd to its feet. When he wanted to drive home a point, it was not a jab but a double uppercut as he thrust both fists in the air. And when he wanted the world to listen?as he did last week?John Vorster switched from Afrikaans to deliberate and slightly accented English...
...Wenn es im Lauf menschlicher Begebenheiten für ein Volk nöthig wird...