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...Kinflicks is authentically inspired. The chapter on Ginny's communal life at the "Free Farmlet" is a wicked send-up of half-baked ideas and less well-prepared menus: "Dinner was a murky soup, filled with dark sodden clumps that looked like leaves from the bottom of a compost pile and that tasted like decomposing seaweed, and whole grain bread which you needed diamond-tipped teeth to chew." The novel teems with cartoon eccentrics mouthing balloonfuls of in flated nonsense...
...Compost Heap. Since then the magazine has served up a steady fare of amiably instructive articles on such topics as how to raise pigs, make maple syrup, build a compost heap and install a lightning rod. "How-to articles are our bread and butter," says Editor Ketchum. Interleaved between the how-tos are thoughtful pieces on such issues as energy policy, the morality of hunting and the future of farming. For all its bucolic content, the magazine is dressed up in striking contemporary design that earned it last week's award...
Atop a Manhattan apartment building, General Motors Heir Stewart Mott tends some 200 varieties of vegetables and herbs on a twentieth-of-an-acre penthouse spread that houses six chickens and a working compost heap...
...seeds and another $25 in fertilizer, plants and tools, a 15- by 25-foot backyard plot can return a yield of vegetables worth $280 to $300 at present prices. But, he warns, "too many people overspend the first time"; fancy tools and equipment (such as a $200 compost maker) of course reduce the savings. And Fell's calculations do not include whatever value the home gardener might care to put on his or her unpaid labor...
Nevertheless, it was from this hedonistic compost that the splendors of "late" Japanese culture grew: Kabuki (theater), Bunraku (puppetry) and Ukiyo-e, which, in the hands of its masters, achieved a finesse of technique and design that, as outright decoration, was virtually unrivaled in Japanese history...