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...whole Northwest, and most especially Washington, is entering a crucial phase, one that will decide whether the region can retain the very elements that distinguish it, in substance and flavor, if not literally in every forest and windswept stretch of coastline. Dixy Lee Ray, herself an increasing source of controversy, is right in the middle of the struggle and delighted to be there. With the subtlety of a Seattle stevedore, she is bulldozing ahead on the key issues. Among them...
...seven-bedroom English-style country house 70 years ago on a stretch of land just 100 ft. from the sea. Unimpressed by now with the daily show of aircraft carriers and nuclear subs cruising by the island, the four Moriarty kids prefer exploring secret trails in local forest preserves, watching the bald eagles or scouring nearby waters for killer whales and schools of frolicking dolphins...
...carnal and real. It could be smoothed by relaxation, as with the sumptuous lesbian couple in Sleep, 1866. Or it could be pinched and chapped, like the mourners' faces in A Burial at Ornans, 1850. The nude figure in The Bathers, 1853, that pink wardrobe waddling into the forest, was a scandal; one wag dubbed it "a 45-year-old woman at the moment of washing herself for the first time in her life, in the hope of assuaging her rash." But we now see in the figure's mounds, dimples and excited brush marks...
...There are approximately 754 million acres of forest land in the U.S. today, 75% as much as when the first colonists arrived. From new growth alone, the forests can yield enough firewood-apart from other products-to provide all the heat for 75 million homes...
...ending. "I think there's a shift back not toward conservatism but toward an end of sexuality for sexuality's sake," says Jack S. Boozer, professor of religion at Emory University in Atlanta. "What you had in the '60s was like being thrown into a forest and told there was no infallible reference point, everything was equal. The person in that forest is just as culturally deprived as the victim of malnutrition or child abuse...