Word: forks
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...woods," wrote Emerson, "we return to reason and faith." In the woods around North Fork, Wash., however, the waiflike runaway and mushroom picker who stands, often silently, at the center of David Guterson's new novel finds a vision of the Virgin Mary. She also finds Satan, smart alecks and all the screaming spirits of premillennial America crying out to her for salvation. Within days of her first Marian sighting, 5,000 pilgrims are following the ecstasies of what they call Ann of Oregon, Greater Catholic Merchandise Outlet trucks are circling around and timber companies are sending out their...
...North Fork, the unlikely site of the Virgin's visitations, is a gritty loggers' town where bumper stickers say KILL DOLPHINS and guys in the bar slur the N word while watching Monday Night Football. Its human landscape is one of stoned teenagers, bewildered immigrants, messed-up drunks and eco-fanatics. Anyone hoping for the delicate earnestness and lyrical settings of Guterson's earlier worksomething more like his best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars--is in for a rough surprise. If much of the story of the solitary "visionary," as he calls Ann, updates the classic witch trials...
Burning Spear has had much longer to craft his following and hone his ample talent. He got his start in 1969 when he ran into Bob Marley carrying “a donkey and some buckets and a fork, and cutlass and plants...
...dressed in a sober suit and tie, but he enjoys telling a good ghost story. Except his are true. “One time late at night,” he says, “we had to pick up a murder victim who was stabbed with a barbeque fork, stabbed right below the ribs. Apparently he got in a beer-fueled fight at a barbeque...
...consumer attorney for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG): "Because it's $1 here, $1.50 there, a lot of people may be shocked to see what they spend. They don't think it's going to cost that much." Consumer Reports estimates a payroll-card holder may fork over $164 a year in fees, but that is still less than the $324 the NYPIRG calculates for check cashing...