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...struck a recently frazzled but lighly entertained nerve in this traveler with "Flying the Crowded Skies" [Aug. 14]. As a project evaluator for the Federal Government, I spent five weeks during June and July plying the heavens on various airlines. After logging about 9,200 as-the-crow-flies miles, eating God knows what with someone's elbow stuck in my ear and being kicked by an unruly child on the other side, one might think I would never want to fly again. But give me a few weeks to adjust my wobbly knees and popping ears to terrestrial...
...nested under Andrew Jackson's magnolia. The mockingbirds are getting into the concord grapes, which are just turning juicy in the arbor. There are in fact about 16 kinds of permanent bird residents on the White House's 18 acres-catbird, house finch, downy woodpecker, fish crow, rock dove, gold finch. And another 38 kinds drop by for visits. A couple of Mallard scooted in to see the South Fountain. Evenden, lurking in the bushes, spotted itinerant yellow-throats, towhees, pewees, chickadees, ruby-throated hummingbirds, red-eyed vireos and a red-breasted nuthatch...
...much care for most of Laura Crow's eclectic costumes either. The ones for Olivia's household, post-Elizabethan but still European, are passable. But those for Orsino and his attendants are light organdy dresses that seem to have wandered out of some edition of The Arabian Nights. Is this supposed to be a reverse comment on Viola's transvestism...
...jacket resorts on Long Island, and affluence hangs heavy in the air on a holiday weekend. Young couples, sleek tans glistening under alligator shirts and Gucci shorts, tote their tennis rackets on top of their other luggage; a slightly older woman, just beginning to lose her lifelong war against crow's feet and encroaching fat, coddles a toy poodle who whimpers against the sharp hissing of the monster diesels; a gaggle of paunchy businessmen, obviously chafing under the discomfort of the sand that still clings to their Coppertone-greasy skin, discusses the probable trends in tomorrow's market...
...major parties had little to crow about, but not much to complain about either. They split the two gubernatorial races. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne, whose self-effacing campaign style consists of a strained smile and straight-arm salute, came from way behind to swamp Republican State Senator Ray Bateman, who tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord...