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...landscape; a mangrove glows like a Christmas tree as thousands of fireflies illuminate its heavy branches. The text, by Naturalists Lorus and Margery Milne, is full of felicities: "It is often the inconspicuous [insects] that have the greatest impact on civilization . . . The world feels right when we hear a cricket chirping." But it is the glowing pictures (by some 40 photographers) that provide the enchantment of this year's wildest bestiary...
...work. That work has its ups and downs, like any other oeuvre, but one would need a flint heart and a glass eye to resent Hockney's success. The bleached-blond thatch, the square face like that of a cubified owl, the schoolboy spectacles, the togs (blazers, cricket caps, candy-striped odd socks) that suggest the house captain of some imaginary...
...pork. Peasants bring in their wives' squawking chickens, eight to a basket. Down the market lanes peasants sell geese and ducks; eels from the canal ditches; fish from their ponds; fruit; fresh vegetables; herbs, spices, ginger root; delicacies. Canaries are for sale again, along with other caged birds, and cricket boxes. Shoemakers ply their trade; itinerant dentists, with their foot-paddle drills, have reappeared...
...There were too many days over 100° while the corn was trying to pollinate." Wilson's corn crop, mostly stunted if not destroyed, will probably be 20% of last fall's. The countryside is denuded. Says Farmer Don Fischer of Corder, Mo.: "You could see a cricket hop in the pastures around here. There's nothing...
...York Times called Ronald Reagan "evasive and sanctimonious about the ethical issues." The Washington Post concluded that "something not quite cricket happened." Even the conservative New York Daily News complained that Reagan had "bobbed and weaved and waffled...