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DURHAM, N.C.--The Harvard men's basketball team's eight-game winning streak on the road came to an end. Saturday afternoon in Easton, Penn., where Lafayet knocked off the Crimson...
...Should you be with the dormitory with the melodies of AC/DC, Sheena Easton, Kenny Rogers, or Adam and the Ants, at an hour at which your parents would be asleep, imagine what would happen if you were doing it at home...
...carver labors under a marketing burden the painter does not have. According to Scott Beatty, a big, strapping accountant in Easton and president of this year's festival, "Anywhere you have a wall in your house, you have a place for flat art. But you have to think hard about where you're going to put a bird...
...church a few blocks away from Beatty's jury-rigged attic office in Easton's Tidewater Inn, some of the nation's finest decoy makers were explaining their techniques to a rapt audience. "Think egg, think oval, think round, think pleasant," said Tan Brunet, a championship carver from Galliano, La. "A bird has no corners." As he talked, a neighbor, Jimmie Vizier, another prizewinning carver, addressed a block of tupelo. Shavings flew. Brunet chalked a map of the United States on a blackboard, understandably skewing the southern dip of Louisiana so that it was more prominent than...
Paradoxically, while the would-be carvers were being drilled in meticulous attention to detail, the true hunters in Easton were out in their blinds behind the crudest decoys in all the land. These were goose decoys, fashioned from old tires, plywood goose heads affixed to the rubber in various attitudes of feeding. They were not proving very effective, but this was not the fault of the decoy, nor of the hunter. There had been a full moon, and the birds had fed at night. Now, in the day, they had no interest in food...