Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...images in six years, mostly birds or seascapes almost childlike in their simplicity. Again, in search of energy, Avery strives not for sophistication but for the power of a basic form--a way to demonstrate the vitality of his world. He expresses all the pride and grandeur of a fan-tailed pigeon with nine zig-zagged lines. A dancer caught in mid-turn prepares to leap from the page, and a startled bird stretches across a dawning sky of four stars and a third-quarter moon...
...Fan Club, Wallace
...congressional report on Nixon's taxes profiles in shocking detail just how far the kingly assumption has gone. Private parties as well as picture windows and a chimney fan at San Clemente were considered things due from the taxpayers. Nixon, of course, says he was not responsible for any errors in his tax returns. But the notion got around in his White House somehow, and there is no record of him or his family protesting as they indulged themselves...
...FAN CLUB by IRVING WALLACE 511 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...through sex research in the suburbs, the inequities of book censorship, race and the presidency, a modern religious crisis, and the politics of the Nobel Prize. The fatty results of these labors are always an elaborate story line, with the action dictated by a clash of differing characters. The Fan Club has that kind of plot too, and the idea of a love goddess turned doughty liberationist is a nice embellishment. It is of course ridiculous, but that does not much matter in a book whose characters say things like "We don't have a chance to fulfill such...