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...readers would do well to give up any notion of decoding the ciphers and symbols that fall as thick and fast as the hailstones of God's wrath. What is one to make, for example, of Cohn's companion on his frail ark: a talking chimpanzee named Buz, after "one of the descendants of Nahor, the brother of Abraham the Patriarch." Granted that Cohn, a former rabbinical student, is given to excesses in biblical name giving, his choice of Buz is scarcely apposite; the chimp is a Christian convert who crosses himself when Cohn reads to him from...
Even when the subject is not biblical, a whiff of another world comes off many of the works: Sam Doyle's portrait of Dr. Buz, the voodoo man, getting instructions from his conch shell, or the extraordinary sculptures of charred old wood made by Jesse Aaron (1887-1979), totems and animals whose sheer metamorphic intensity would blow late Dubuffet out of any museum. The strength of Aaron's work owed everything to his belief that his task was to release the latent image from the log, where it was trapped. "God put the faces in the wood...
Massachusetts is already encouraging solar energy use in Boston, Buz Laughlin of the Massachusetts Energy Resources Office said this week. "We believe that if it is cost-effective, it should be done. We're doing everything possible to encourage energy efficiency...
...sawdust and paraffin, and sold at most supermarkets, can be dangerous if used in woodburning stoves, and are no great bargain at about $1.40 for a three-hour log.) Still, even half a cord of firewood stacked in a garage is a comforting source of emergency heat for buz zards and supply interruptions. When a 32-mile stretch of Virginia's Skyline Drive was opened up to wood collectors by the National Park Service last October, hundreds flocked in every weekend. In Nevada, U.S. Forest Service wood collection permits that once were free now cost $3.50; in California, they...
Died. Roy Crane, 75, comic-strip cartoonist and creator of Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer; in Orlando, Fla. His swashbuckling grocery clerk, Washington Tubbs II, is credited with bringing adventure to the bland funny papers of the '20s when he fell in love with Tango the tiger tamer. Though other artists adopted Tubbs and Friend Captain Easy, Crane collaborated on Navy Pilot Buz until his death...