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BREECE PANCAKE's immensely powerful first book is sadly, his final work as well. A young writer of striking talent, he took his own life in 1979 at the age of 26. His stories remain, and these 12 of the best some of them previously published in The Atlantic, convey a deep understanding of life in the small farming hollows, coal mines and river towns of his native West Virginia hills. He evokes on a smaller scale, a local world as nuanced and distinctive as the Dublin of Joyce's Dubliners: the region itself with its hills, rivers, fogs...
...hockey team pursued a futile battle before 15,000 frenzied spectators, the icewomen quietly advanced to next week's championship game with a 12-0 demolition of the Eagles. But not even the 12 goals--the most ever in Beanpot history--convey the ease with which the Crimson dominated Consider these facts...
...well below the ceilings established by SALT II. But that proposal is contingent on there being no new missiles in NATO. Last fall the Soviets seemed to be backing away from their threat of a walkout, since it conflicted with the image of infinite patience they were trying to convey...
...pieces, like the disquieting Wagon I (a "personage" consisting of a rectangular helm set on a swollen belly made of two tank ends welded together, all balancing on a huge forged chassis), suggest a sense of the figure and accordingly evoke responses from one's own body. They convey forceful impressions of posture, gesture and attitude. Smith was not in the business of making large iron dolls, and it may be, as various critics have pointed out, that the usual verticality of his sculptures encourages one to read them too readily as effigies of the figure. The same object...
...movement. A grandmother of his was a Catawba Indian, and Wilkerson has grown intensely interested in this heritage and its culture. He has taken an Indian name, Ches-ne-o-na-eh, which translates as "the man who kills the wolves." Wilkerson suggests another meaning that this name could convey: "a beautiful being in a scarred world...