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...Dowayo language, which has four tones that affect meaning, is devilishly hard to get right. Barley tries to tell an important Dowayo, "I am cooking some meat," but the pitch is wrong, and his statement comes out as "I am copulating with the blacksmith." Everywhere he goes, the newcomer finds himself enmeshed in African webs of social obligation. Each time he gets into his car, a dozen villagers appear with luggage. All expect to be given a ride, plus money to spend, and most can be counted on to vomit inside the car at some point during the trip. Many...
...wooden pail of gumdrops at $1.65 and a dozen 5-lb. pails of strawberry jelly for $6. Clothing included men's wool worsted suits for $6.50 and ladies' "walking and bicycle suits" for $6.75, topped off by a "very stylish" $2.95 hat. There were blacksmith's tools, farm implements and a vehicle section featuring phaetons, surreys, carriages and a "top-grade" buggy...
...films with distinctly Aussie themes made it to this side of the Pacific--films like Breaker Morant and Gallipoli, which depicted with a bloody poignancy the British manipulation of the colony's armed forces during the early part of this century. Other successful films like The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith and The Last Wave were classified as uniquely Australian because they delved into the racial tensions between the white settlers of the continent and the Black Aborigines whom they tried to wipe...
...days when you aspire to accomplish nothing more than watching water beads form on your lemonade glass, follow Long fellow to the legendary village smithy's haunts, the Blacksmith on Brattle St. This cafe features a quiet milieu and some of the Square's best pastries...
...sure Weirton will survive under new ownership, and that naturally makes some of the workers edgy. "I'm not saying the plan is going to fail," says Blacksmith Thomas Troia, 57, whose father and four brothers have worked at Weirton. "It may be a perfect thing. But you don't know. You have to go with what you have, not with what may be. I imagine there will be a lot of older fellows going...