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Social life picked up in her teen-age years. She plunges into vivid accounts of coconut shies and garden parties, the technique of hat painting and cheating on one's dance card. In the myriad detail of the book is an irresistible ingenuousness. When she achieved her first success as a thriller writer, she bought a car. "I will confess," she says, "that of the two things that have excited me most in my life the first was my grey bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. The second was dining with the Queen about forty years later." There follows a paragraph...
...Greene, I should jump to high heaven with delight, but I know that I can't." This disarming passage ends with a motto that also fits this modest, agreeable book. Dame Agatha recalls a plate on her nursery wall, "which I think I must have won at a coconut shy at one of the regattas. 'Be a wheel-greaser if you can't drive a train...
...violence to the land is regarded as an outrage against the people of that land. That is why the Navy's use of Kahoolawe Island as a target has always provoked bitterness among Hawaiians, now resulting in open protest. Ancient battles were provoked by cutting down coconut trees, thus obligating the owners to do battle as much as if a kinsman had been assaulted...
...Dorothy Gray wood constructions called "Timeline I and II" are interesting because Gray uses pieces of bedposts, stair railings and mirrors to show progression through time. The unusual Medium Award for the week goes to Patricia Verant for her sculpture of a giraffe made with epoxy glue and coconut shells...
...time, each devotee performed an elaborate bathing ceremony that took up to a month, but with millions now in attendance such rituals are impossible. Most ordinary worshipers simply float a coconut shell with offerings to the local deity, take the "holy dip," and fill small metal vials with Ganges water to take away...