Word: forested
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Potter was born, the same year as Marlow, into a poor family in the Forest of Dean, those sprawling West Country woods where young Philip spots his mother copulating. Potter moved to London, as his character does, was graduated with honors from Oxford, ran unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1964, then began writing teleplays. For half his life he has suffered from the same disease as Marlow, and must stay occasionally in the sort of hospital he lances so vigorously in the series. Potter insists that Detective is not autobiographical, "except for the illness, with which I'm overly, sickeningly familiar...
...fantasy Marlow is, remember, a singing detective. As he did in Pennies from Heaven, Potter scatters period songs to make ironic points. A quartet of doctors turns Fred Waring's Dry Bones into a sardonic production number; The Teddy Bears' Picnic plays over memories of a forest seduction. "No matter how sugary and banal they might be," Potter says, "old popular songs are in a direct line of descent from the Psalms. They're saying that the world is other than the thing around you -- other than age, other than sickness, other than death. These songs are chariots; they take...
Since 3 out of every 5 new jobs in the economy are created by companies with fewer than 500 employees, small businesses suffer as severely as their corporate brethren. Bill Gregory, who owns Gregory Forest Products Sawmill in Glendale, Ore. (pop. 870), did not know he had a problem on his hands until one of his 400 employees noticed that a forklift operator took forever to count loads of lumber. A bit of digging disclosed that about 10% of the mill's workers needed help developing proficiency in math and English. So, at a cost of $15,000, Gregory asked...
...discovered tale by Wilhelm Grimm, younger of the Grimm brothers, is unprecedented. The work of collaborators separated by more than 150 years is irresistible. All three converge in Dear Mili (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95), a long-lost Grimm tale in which a mother sends her child off to the forest as war approaches. Mili stumbles upon a safe house where she is sheltered by St. Joseph and her guardian angel. After three days the child is guided home, but in that time 30 years have passed. Mili is unchanged; her mother has dramatically aged. The conclusion is freighted with mystery...
...discreet presence, strung along the shores of the Mediterranean, of an elegiac classical past. The figures in Matisse's fauve landscapes at St.-Tropez -- amply represented in this show -- are Arcadians with spots. The pale recumbent nude among the columnar tree trunks in his Nymph in the Forest, 1935-42 or '43, harks directly back to Titian. The flute player in Henri Rousseau's The Happy Quartet, 1902, whose music is joined by the howling of a giant white poodle, is a reprise of innumerable earlier pastorals. Gauguin was partly a reprise of Watteau, each in his own way imagining...