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...Angeles' Fred Sands: "For the first time in years, we're seeing a flattening in the market. Home prices at or below $200,000 are very difficult to sell." Leonard Reedy, who farms 3,000 acres in Clyde, Kans., reports that high interest rates and low crop prices are killing farmers in his region. Says he: "We've got to do something to get prices up or else have another Grapes of Wrath book writ about us." Joe Lewis has owned a small musical instrument store in Atlanta for more than ten years, but last week...
...rate, the Great American Short Story is in big trouble as it continues its long and weird career. As an art form it wallows along in a colossal identity crisis with hardly any important practitioners, and as a money crop it remains hopelessly unmarketable. Though tortured young aesthetes sporting carefully squalid clothes, students, and housewives produced over 300.000 short stories last year. The missives dropped into oblivion with hardly a sound. There is simply nothing to do with them. The circle of magazines with significant readership trafficking in short fiction remains plodding and exclusive, and, young short story writers...
...outcome of the women's competition was less predictable. Biellmann, fourth-place finisher at the 1980 Olympics, is the most seasoned skater of the current crop. She carried the day with a blend of experienced sang-froid and virtuoso spins. In a contortionist move of her own contriving, she grabbed her left leg behind her back with both hands and stretched it high overhead, while spinning at dazzling speed on her right leg. The Biellmann spin is breathtaking, but she lacks the athletic triple jumps that have become the sport's new measuring stick. With the new emphasis...
...country, few nowadays believe that black and white would rush toward each other automatically, unhesitantly. The differences between black and white America run awfully deep. And the deepest of them are not found in surveys or in statistical studies, or even in the most open conversations. Where they do crop up, as they always have, is where they are taken least seriously: in the fiction and poems of black writers, where as art they may be both revealed and camouflaged simultaneously. That passage in Go Tell It on the Mountain, for instance. Moving as it is, it makes the point...
Louis Ostolozaga of Manhattan College led most of the race while Dixon held to the back of the pack. The splendid sprinter then made his move with two laps to go, accelerating past Ostolozaga and the cream of the East coast's middle distance crop. Dixon broke the tape in the equivalent of a four minute mile...