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Beetle on the Blade. In her latest novel, Author Bolton tries to fill a larger frame. The Christmas Tree is the story of a possessive mother and a mother-possessed son, of how she got that way through a thwarted childhood and a loveless marriage, and of how her son became a homosexual and finally a murderer...
...Brother Paul Jr., 37, is also co-publisher of the Post-Gazette, but spends most of his time running another Block paper, the Toledo (Ohio) Blade...
...Toronto- each headed by a bureau chief, and 24 local correspondents (called "string correspondents" or "stringers") in as many cities scattered throughout the Dominion. Each is a reporter or editor for a local newspaper like the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Tribune, the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald, or the Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) Blade. During the last six months the news file from Canada ran to more than a million words...
...Every blade of grass in the picture is separately painted. "Just because something is tightly done doesn't mean anything," Wyeth says, "but I feel that the more you get into the textures of things, the less you have to clutter up the composition with a lot of props. When you lose simplicity you lose drama, and drama is what interests me. I guess I'm just an illustrator at heart...
Jessup continued: "The Soviet Government has revealed the weakness of its position by adopting what I may refer to as grasshopper tactics . . . Each leap ends on a blade of grass which turns out to be a flimsy pretext requiring a jump to a new but equally unstable position . . . The long process of proposal and counterproposal, of promises made and withdrawn, made it plain that good faith-that prerequisite to settlement-was absent from the Soviet mind...