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Paul Hawken knows his customers well. Of the new generation of gardeners, he says, "their parents had a quarter acre with a power mower and a hedge clipper. They have 600 sq. ft. behind a condo and 90 different kinds of plants in it." But he does not disdain those who crave his lovingly designed tools made of second-growth ash. "Serious gardeners are like serious writers, painters, dancers," he says. "For people who view gardening as a craft, buying the best tool they can get is absolutely essential...
...Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, and it took over his powerful imagination. Todd's catastrophe is that by the time he has finished Part I to his maniacal standards, it is 1931, and the arrival of sound has rendered his 5-hr., 48-min. extravaganza a "splendid three-masted clipper ship . . . magnificent, but of another age than ours...
...Alberta Clipper" is a storm system which usually brings arctic winds to New England, leaving its denizens chilled to the bone...
Call Brita Lind the "Regina Clipper." Her usual trademark is to fly past defensemen with the ferocity of an arctic breeze, leaving opposing goalies helpless...
...they do, watch out. France will probably never see anything like the Regina Clipper again...