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...White's lovely fable Charlotte's Web, the literate spider Charlotte saves a pig named Wilbur from execution by spinning blurbs about him in the barn doorway: SOME PIG, RADIANT, and so on. The astonished farm folk put away their thoughts of slaughter; they no longer regard Wilbur as pork, but as a tourist attraction, and even a celebrity who enjoys the favor of higher powers. Sweet Wilbur will survive to grow old in the barnyard. He gratefully sighs, "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer...
...Prince Charles' retriever Harvey, who couldn't wait to get off the plane. He bounded down the gangway, dragging Charles behind like a tin can. Then there was Anne's retriever. He took one look at the steep gangway and cowered in the plane's doorway. While a shirt-sleeved steward grabbed the dog, Princess Anne, with a stiff upper lip and fairly rigid upper arm, pulled on the dog's lead. The retriever lost. And Diana? Well, she just got a new cassette recorder and at times has seemed oblivious to the domestic turmoil...
ANTHROPOLOGISTS INSIST that man is slowly growing larger, a fraction of an inch each generation, so that 1980 man bumps his head on the doorway that 1850 man sailed under easily. The subspecies of American writers, though, seem even more thyroidal--in the past few decades they have soared in size. Mailer, Wolfe, even John Irving; these men are literary Paul Bunyans, their typewriters 40 axhandles from base to carriage. Unafraid of any subject, they tackle modern life head on, to either conquer (Mailer and Wolfe) or be conquered. There is nothing quiet and little reflective about these men; they...
...gray afternoon last April, 6-ft. 10-in. Crimson basketball center Bob McCabe leaned on his bike in the empty doorway of unfinished Briggs Cage...
...images in numerous variations, a self-reflexive mode of invention that one associates more with Picasso than anyone earlier. This point is brought home dramatically by the gallery of motifs from The Gates of Hell, from The Thinker itself (originally meant to be the central figure over the doorway, a Dante dreaming the whole Inferno) to the battalion of flying, crouching, writhing figures, bare forked animals all, that crowd the plinths...