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...been buzzed during an important dance by a low-flying photographer from up the road in Santa Fe. In another day, some of the more outraged Pueblo might have divided him into several parts. In these litigious times, they sued for $3.65 million. How quaint the tale appeared from afar. (Damages? "Infertility." Sex or soil? "Both.") And how levelheaded and 20th century it turned out to be from the ground. (Damages? "You can never put a monetary value on disturbances of this kind. What we want more than anything else is to follow our religious practices without interference. Besides, juries...
...killings, as he does it in the pieces collected here, is a touchy matter. The author's franchise is broad but unclear. A newspaper routinely covers the murders in its area if the central characters are celebrated or the crimes gaudy, and offers a selection of corpses from afar if both conditions are met. Duty requires this; the news must be reported, however disgustingly fascinating. Trillin is under no such absolving obligation...
Penck's obsessive loquacity and mock-ritual imagery are apt to cause inflation. "He is like the North Pole," rhapsodizes Curator Cowart, "that place which attracts the navigational magnetic compass from afar but repels and disorients it when approached." The more modest truth, for those with unwiggled needles, is that Penck's imagery is often so obscure that he seems to feel no special responsibility to the system he deploys. A lot of the paintings are mumbo jumbo, and their formal attributes can be remarkably trite-cliché figure-ground reversals, careless scrawly drawing...
...satellite's television camera works, it will provide the first images from afar of the orbiting shuttle. After some seven hours of traveling alone, the satellite will be grappled on board by Ride. The demonstration is designed to reassure NASA that satellites can be retrieved for repair or servicing, thereby vastly extending their useful lifetimes...
...ever so ambiguous, there is no idea like home. Not the least of home's specialness is the fact that it can often be seen most clearly from afar. Thus it was a sojourn in Italy that inspired Robert Browning's famous "Oh, to be in England . . ." By chance, while in Paris early in the 19th century, the American Actor-Author John Howard Payne experienced some of the yearnings for home that found their way into his classic Home, Sweet Home. Together, Payne's song and Browning's poetry suggest that the part of home that...