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...Edward J. King signed the bill into Law in December, amending the chapter of Massachusetts law governing illegal drugs. Under the new provision, selling any paraphernalia "intended" for use with controlled substances will land a dealer, independent craftsman, or retail manager in jail for one or five years, depending on whether the items are sold to adults or minors...
This new volume--the third in a series that already includes White's collected essays and letters--proves once more White's claim to the title of master craftsman. Much of the material is dated or insignificant; the pieces that work, though, work so well. Two sketches, one the account of the birth of a baby deer in the Bronx Zoo, the other a description of city pigeons, are exemplary of White's best work. Nature, especially the small manifestations of nature--breezes not gales--and the precarious manifestations of nature, have traditionally been best expressed by writers of this...
...affair, but it requires a higher form of invention. The grandiloquent similes of which love letters are made-similes reduced to grunts and sighs when people are face to face-serve not only to heighten passion, but to make a frieze of it, to turn the lover into a craftsman. This may not be true of Mrs. Thomas Carlyle, who addressed a letter to her husband, "Goody, Goody, dear Goody" and signed it "Goody" as well; or of Zelda Fitzgerald, who once focused on the sartorial-"I look down the tracks and see you coming and out of every haze...
Like another great craftsman, Alfred Hitchcock, Lucas prefers to present himself as a pure entertainer, perhaps fearing that references to more profound aspects of his work will put the public off. "Francis Coppola likes to think of film as art," he says. "I don't take it that seriously. Art is for someone to figure out 100 years from now." Spielberg agrees and disagrees. "We both see movies through youngsters' eyes," he says. "I don't make intellectual movies. George, however, is really an intellectual...
...commercial, or "informercial" as they call them, that will soon be used widely on cable television. These will range in length from 30 minutes to four hours. Sears, for example, could buy half an hour of air time to explain how to redecorate a porch, with Sears paint and Craftsman tools, of course. Ads comparing brand-name products, extolling the merits of one over the other, could be dealt with in laborious detail. Says Michael Dann, senior program adviser to ABC's Video Enterprises: "The advertiser who wants to spell out the differences between Phillips' Milk Of Magnesia...