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Long became interested in the idea of leaving a tangible record of his path on the landscape. He would gather together local materials such as stones, branches and brush, arranging them in circles or lines often reflecting the contour of the terrain. In "England" Long picked flowers out of a field, leaving a green X of plain grass. Long's groupings are all of a temporary nature--patterns in sand that wash away with the tide, clumps of desert grass that will be scattered by the wind. Long's two photographs of man-made structures are significant: Windmill Hill, home...
...Illustrator Alberto Varga, 84, who stirred the fantasies of two generations of young men with his soft drawings of semi-nude seductresses for, among others, Esquire and Playboy. Varga retired from painting beauties five years ago, but when Peters, 32, approached him, he just had to give her the brush. Said he: "Yes, you are a Varga Girl." Peters, who wore a camisole for her sittings and bared her shoulders and little else, couldn't have agreed more: "I feel that I look like those ladies from the '20s, '30s and '40s. That...
...arrival of new neighbors is likely to brush even the most stable of home owners with a tinge of paranoia. Property values are at stake, after all, not to mention the territorial imperative. Will the newcomers possess large marauding dogs or, worse, teen-age children? Will they fill up their front yard with rusting automobiles, set up a permanent garage sale in their driveway, sell cosmetics or encyclopedias door to door, deal hard drugs, paint their house pink, fire pistols randomly at passing cars and pedestrians . . . ? Such fears usually remain unrealized, but they still retain the power to induce night...
...State Department and NASA have tried to brush off these fears, insisting that the pact seeks only to ensure the orderly exploitation of the moon-which contains great stores of aluminum, titanium, magnesium and other valuable metals. Says one annoyed State Department aide: "You'll still be able to make a buck off the moon, if there's a buck to be made there." Though the treaty says no part of the moon can become the exclusive preserve of any single country or organization, it does not forbid mining or exploration there. It stipulates only that such activities...
Some prefer to vend. Hock hats and sell souvenirs at an amusement park (and see if your tutorial helps you unload $30 stuffed animals to saturated fairgoers). Work for the Fuller Brush people. Earn commissions, seek out customers, play the stock market, start a lemonade and orange juice stand, diversify, accumulate, acquire...