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The route has been marked with special signs, and at intervals no more than a day's journey (roughly 50 miles) apart, there are specially reserved campgrounds and bike inns. The bike inns are usually borrowed churches, college dormitories and school gymnasiums, where inexpensive meals, a bed and shower...
Publishing is by no means the only field in which American women have made significant contributions. Agriculture, for example, has profited immensely by women's innovations. Elinor Laurens of Ansonborough, South Carolina, became the first colonist to cultivate a wide variety of exotic fruits and vegetables-including olives, capers...
Readers of Evan Connell's The Connoisseur already know Karl Muhlbach, the middle-aged insurance executive and widower who developed a quiet obsession with pre-Columbian art. An innately cool eye for authenticity got him started. Muhlbach's sudden desire to possess statuary caused him embarrassment. In Double...
Because Joys of a Woman is soft-core porn, slated for more general consumption than, say, The Devil and Miss Jones, there are no scenes of sexual acts that could shock any but the most prudish. The cinematography, like the bodies, is beautiful; the exotic backgrounds are topped off by...
After the conquest, European visions prevailed, and America was the loser. The image of Latin America as an exotic, picturesque garden lacking any real identity traveled from European visionaries to American artists, who returned it with a vengeance. Even scientific travelers such as Alexander von Humboldt were reduced to painting...