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...svelte, sensitive, Southern friend of mine and a few journalistic plural pronouns. We found the Appalachia shop in a small open booth near places that push Polish and Central American crafts. It was full of stuffed animals, handmade cutting boards, quilts encased in plastic, patchwork pillow kits, brightly colored hearth brooms, and a couple of striking cardboard carton displays of something called "Jack Guy Folk Toys...
...think of that object in a number of ways. So a house wife might think of a table as something more or less utilitarian. A carpenter would notice how It is made and from what quality of wood. A poet-a bad one-will imagine everyone sitting round the hearth, and so forth. But for a painter it will be, quite simply, a collection of flat colored shapes." Such statements have since become the cliches of every art school, and Gris was by no means the first to utter them; his ideas, in this respect, derive from earlier French...
Golden-Oldies. On ABC in recent months, a viewer could renew acquaintance with all kinds of golden-oldie situations. There was Kirk Douglas playing a worm turned psychopathic killer in Mousey; Robert Gulp as a bourgeois daddy forced to defend suburban hearth and home from a predatory adolescent gang in Outrage; Gulp again as one of a group of men who must work while their women anxiously wait in Houston, We 've Got a Problem (namely a space shot gone awry); Gloria Swanson doing a dotty old lady thing with her friends the Killer Bees; Natalie Wood and Robert...
...commodity. This new section will allow us to give prominence to a subject that is Topic A on everyone's mind right now." Loeb confesses, incidentally, that the accompanying photograph was taken before he had read the Energy section story that explains why burning wood on the family hearth can actually drain a house of its heat...
FIREPLACES: Wood-burning fireplaces are no bargain. For one thing, the price of a dozen logs is now as much as $6. This charming but primitive heating method is grossly inefficient and can cause stiff necks. If a homeowner is lucky enough to have a hearth with a good draft, the chimney will draw off as much as 20% of the heated air in the house...