Word: woven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cotton broad-woven fabrics were turned out at an average weekly rate of 182.5 million yards, chalking up a new record...
...Littleboro, Lancashire, the countryside tells a century of cotton history. There are the old cottages, where women used to hand out woven cloth to merchants on horseback in return for more yarn to weave into more cloth. There is the 100-year-old red brick mill, which Cuthbert Barwick Clegg's grandfather built to replace cottage industry, and where he prospered. (Now a third of its 1,500 prewar workers rattle around in the big weaving rooms among many idle looms.) There is the big grey stone house, built by Grandfather Clegg, now too big for Cuthbert to staff...
...story is a familiar one: the fight of two escaped P.O.W.'s through German-occupied Italy into Switzerland. Around this simple idea author Richard Schweizer has woven a brilliant series of incidents whose episodic qualities and to rather than detract from the film's intensity. Even the brief appearances of such figures as a Catholic priest or peasant girl are so carefully etched that they contain wealth enough for an entire movie...
...frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok, once one of Bali's best-known native dancers. When the war cut off his supply of oils and canvas, Le Mayeur improvised a new medium. He painted with Javanese sarong dyes on a burlap-like cloth woven from tree fiber. The dye's bright pinks and greens on the rough fabric recalled old European tapestry...
...Hope. But one section of his native land pleased Miller: the South. There he discovered America's only "characters." No other people of any age, concludes Author Miller, have woven "such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as 'here in America. . . ." But there is a ray of hope: "We have a few years ahead of us, and then . . . the whole planet will be in the throes of revolution. . . . Fires will rage until the very foundations of this present world crumble. Then we shall see who has life, the life more abundant...