Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, only one tree usually accompanies the band, but some graduated bark came back for the occasion. The real tree, Stanford sophomore Judy Mischel, says being a tree isn't easy. "I'm supposed to skip around and just act crazy but I get molested." Fifty people wanted the job of being tree for a year, but Judy got it because she was the first to show...
...Yorker, McPhee has straddled two worlds in scores of articles and more than a dozen books. Best known for his non-fiction study of Alaska, Coming into the Country, McPhee has also tangled with long, discursive pieces about the higher levels of tennis, the craft of bark canoe builders, missing links in the technology of nuclear waste disposal. McPhee is an adventurer of information, a stickler for the facts. He has written a book about oranges, a most studious and exacting survey that would do justice to Montaigne in its recognition of fundamental cravings. Typically, McPhee works from the sidelines...
Even now, more than 60 years after its discovery, the blight annually kills 400,000 trees in the U.S. Cutting and removal-the only sure way of stopping the spread of the fungus, which is borne chiefly by bark beetles from tree to tree-costs $100 million a year, to say nothing of the aesthetic price. In many Northern cities, once shaded thoroughfares are treeless and barren. In Milwaukee, where more than 100,000 elms flourished in 1956, barely one-fifth still stand. In Champaign-Urbana, Ill., there were 14,000 elms at the end of World...
...died last year, largely because the elms are doused each spring with a chemical that discourages beetles from nesting, and park rangers and volunteers conduct "elm watches" to spot the disease (early signs: wilting, curling and yellowing leaves; thinning of the tree's crown; brown streaks under the bark). An aroused citizenry helps keep the pressure on city hall; last month elm lovers in the Big Apple staged a protest saying not enough was being done to save the trees...
...organize boycotts (once listing all the trade names of antiunion J.P. Stevens products) and how to spur recalls of cars. Explains Dowie: "We want to get readers angry and make them do something. We're pamphleteers." Staff members talk easily of "fascist oligarchies" and "revolutionary weapons," but their bark is more ideological than their bite. "I don't want to live in a society without good restaurants or a choice of health care," says Dowie...