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...indeed become a nation of believers in the virtues of exercise, but a new study from the Federal Government reports that most citizens confine their practice to nothing more strenuous than pushing a shopping cart around a supermarket on Saturday morning or shoveling down a pint of ice cream while doing laps between the kitchen and the TV set. "There are trends toward improvement," declares Dr. Michael McGinnis, director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "The great majority know the importance of fitness. But they have not taken...
...world as he can within the confines of his literature. In "A Supermarket in California," he describes his method of "shopping for images" which shows up in much of his poetry. "Hiway Poesy," a journal-like poem documenting his trek across the United States, represents the shopping cart he fills with singular images and experiences...
...Ginsburg is conscious of the disparity between the individual parts. He approaches his catalogueing technique with a tinge of self-parody that ultimately ends in an honest statement about the fragmentation of today's World. Because he is aware of the incongruity in some of his poetry, his shopping cart of separate images becomes a frank reflection of the isolated individual's position in an incomprehensible world...
...great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
Mitsumasa Anno has been called the Escher of Japan because of his ability to trick the eye and educate the mind. In Anno's Flea Market (Philomel; $11.95), two old peasants wheel a cart across a medieval square. Horseless carriages suddenly appear in the background. A stagecoach is on display, and African explorers have arrived with a cache of ivory tusks. In Anno's crowded canvas, allusions are everywhere: the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, the paintings of Monet, the films of Rene Clair reach across the years. With his panoramic, limitless cast, this flea market constantly renews...