Word: birchbark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pink and red scarf an homage to Bronzino, a raindrop neatly mimicking a tear on her cheek. Katz can also be very good at holding large areas of color in strict, hushed equilibrium (the "abstract" side of his work); two of the best paintings in this show are of birchbark canoes, their graceful forms doubled in reflection, riding on even fields of green and blue...
...Champlain and the early fur trappers into the region. Laforgue's assignment is to relieve a remote mission at Ihonatiria on the shores of Lake Huron. He and a young French assistant named Daniel must travel by canoe in the company of an Algonquin band that is the birchbark equivalent of a motorcycle gang...
Your pleasant review of John McPhee's book In Suspect Terrain [Jan. 31] states: "No other journalist avoids the obvious with as much success as John McPhee. To hold readers through books about oranges, the New Jersey Pine Barrens or birchbark canoes is a tribute to his eye for narrative grain and hand for prose dovetails. The sanding and finishing are done by editors at The New Yorker, where McPhee's books first appear." In actuality, John McPhee's prose is written, sanded and polished by John McPhee...
...other journalist avoids the obvious with as much success as John McPhee. To hold readers through books about oranges, the New Jersey Pine Barrens or birchbark canoes is a tribute to his eye for narrative grain and hand for prose dovetails. The sanding and finishing are done by editors at The New Yorker, where McPhee's books first appear...