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...pinpoint experiences her books are "about" or events that "affected" them, offering instead the anecdote of a farmer neighbor whose barn caught fire several years ago. The entire herd of cattle was brought out unharmed, suffering no visible effects; five months later, though, all the cows miscarried. Rather than assess and second-guess her own delayed shock values. Atwood states her preference for filling the months between novels--when the emotional and creative cycles don't overlap--with writing T.V. docudramas and adaptations, her mental equivalent of a jog around the block...
...trends rise, crest, fall and rise again seemingly without reason. Even fashionmongers, the people who devote themselves to charting these periodic cycles, make no pretense of perceiving a rational causality in it. Rather, they channel their energies into sniffing out the true trend-setter-or-reviver from among the herd of recherche hangers-on who persist in feeding off the piled carcasses of defunct trends...
Nonetheless, Allen was one of the small group of advisers and assistants, unelected and sometimes all but unknown to the public, who serve every Administration as the President's eyes, ears and hands. They bring information to the chief, define the policy choices that he confronts, ride herd on the bureaucracy to see how well his decisions are carried...
...land can handle. For that reason, the BLM stages periodic roundups and puts the trapped horses up for public adoption. Dale Crawford, 53, an Oregonian who runs down horses for a living, has outbid-at $58 a head-a passel of others for the right to thin the Piceance herd from 346 horses to 166. Along with his wife Shirley, 52, and brother Gil, Crawford has spent hours in the garage perfecting the labyrinthine steel pen. He has spent another two days airborne over Yellow Creek, scouting the precise location to erect it. Crawford chooses a gully at the confluence...
...messianic style. It came back across the Atlantic in the '30s and '40s, and then was academized. Without doubt, the reign of the curtain wall and the spread of a debased sort of rubber-stamp corporate modernism were helped by the factors Wolfe lists: fashion, snobbery, herd instinct and the colonial cringe. Mainly, the glass box won because it was cheap to build. But it just might be that the American patrons of mainstream modernism were not as dumb or masochistic about their glass boxes as Wolfe thinks. What if they felt, on some instinctive level, that those...