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Hughes generally begins work at 5 a.m., climbing to a second-floor office in a barn at his Long Island, New York, home. When he needs a break, he likes to go downstairs to his carpentry shop, where he builds furniture. "I find the action of hand-planing extremely soothing," he says. "It zoids you out." After lunch he takes a long nap, a ritual he began in 1964 following a trip to Italy. "God help anybody who tries to reach me between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," he laughs...
...Real World -- was a hip complement to the channel's usual diet of music videos. Now in its fourth season, the documentary series follows the lives of six or seven carefully chosen young strangers, brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery Barn catalog. The cast members and locales change each year, but the formula doesn't. The producers assemble distinctive and contrasting personalities -- the current season, set in London, pits Neil, a bookish, anti-American Brit, against Mike, a McDonald's-loving Missouri jock -- and then wait for the inevitable clashes...
...reveal themselves as performers, or shamans, or unloved children, or observers of bugs through microscopes. The Australian writer Thomas Keneally is a builder, a gifted, painstaking maker of books. After 20 novels, including Schindler's List and A Victim of the Aurora, a reader imagines him rummaging through his barn for old beams and bricks stored years before and never used. Stories, perhaps, told by his grandparents, who were storekeepers in Australia's Macleay River Valley. He sorts the tales, considers which can still bear weight, begins to sketch a plan for A River Town (Doubleday; 324 pages...
...like wool long johns. Take the predicament of 122,000 year-round residents of New York State's 6 million-acre Adirondack Park. The park was to be "forever wild," and the state's 22-year-old Adirondack Park Agency regulates growth. But it also generates fury--expressed by barn burning, tire slashing and vehicle shooting, in addition to much heated talk. One of the angriest is Richard Schoenstadt, 44, a surveyor's assistant who bought 54 riverfront acres, intending to subdivide. The apa insisted on an exhaustive biological inventory. Then, says Schoenstadt, who between fighting and complying lost...
...viewers, are left with a feeling of loss, of mystery. Where is Merle? Has he been left behind, or has he chosen his solitary condition as toiler? Has he been marginalized by a phallocentric culture, or empowered by his decision not to penetrate The Barn's confines? One is reminded of the opening credits of "What's Happenin' Now?" where we see Rerun, an androgyne clearly alineated from patriarchal norms, run after the phallus/ truck, always wanting, but never, never having...