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...wild adventuring can go anywhere: to the fun of a long, jingly poem about a snooty cat, to the soaring fantasy of a ride through the night sky on carousel horses come alive, to the lovingly mapped realism of a Midwestern farm through a season of hay growing. A sampling of this season's best journeys for young readers and listeners...
...HAYSTACK, by Bonnie and Arthur Geisert (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a prize: a fascinating, beautifully drawn progression of Midwestern farmscapes showing the yearly building and slow consumption of an enormous, barn-sized haystack. Hay in a big field is cut with a tractor and sickle bar, then raked into windrows and stacked with a hydraulic lift and pitchforks. The great hay pile then serves as both food and shelter, first for cattle, then for pigs, through the long winter. There's no preaching, but important lessons are learned about work and weather, and how life might seem in the vast...
...R.N.C. is prepared to pamper supporters who want to work the phones themselves. It has scheduled two "phone days" in the tony Hay-Adams Hotel across from the White House. Of this offer and others in the Barbour letter, R.N.C. spokeswoman Mary Crawford says, "That's just sort of the way it's done." That may be exactly why the Republicans of Newt's revolution are unlikely soon to rewrite the laws governing checkbook politics...
...MOVEMENT IS NO MERE rekindling of the '70s' Sagebrush Rebellion, although it does share the same goal of increasing local control over federal lands. Carver, who carries his Constitution in his shirt pocket even while baling hay, is a product of the same antifederalist ferment that produced such widely divergent events as the Oklahoma City bombing and Ross Perot's recent proposal to launch a new political party. Nye's particular brand of rebellion is driven too by an intense feeling that the combined forces of federal law, environmental activism and urban growth may have doomed a mythic frontier life...
Heaven lies far away, in California. It's called The Twilight of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a movie to be directed by Frank Capra. Purgatory is right at hand, in Buffalo, New York. It's where a pair of aging stage actors, George Hay (Philip Bosco) and his wife Charlotte (Carol Burnett), dream of starring in the Capra film. Instead, on this June day in 1953, they are reprising rundown performances of Cyrano and Private Lives. Payrolls are not being met, and their troupe is nearing mutiny...