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Everything in the Catalogue. For Charlie, their eight-room, 55-year-old farm home is a weekend haven of peace and quiet. When he gets home from Chicago on Friday nights and dons his old clothes, Shuman goes out to look over the crops or attack the weeds that infest the vegetable garden behind the house. He grows nearly every fruit and vegetable* in the seed catalogue. Mabel, who can hardly use one-fifth of what he grows, has a surplus problem of her own. She has a big freezer and a cellar room for her preserves, but the bounty...
...likes it more. He likes it as much as the sergeant does, and he hates the sergeant because the sergeant won't let him forget that they are tigers of the same stripe, who go mad when they smell blood. When there is blood to smell, the tigers infest the screen with danger and excitement. When there isn't, and in every third or fourth scene there isn't, they suffer an embarrassing transformation. They begin to purr like patriotic pussycats, and their stripes turn suddenly red, white and blue...
Besides its philosophical protagonist, the work draws on a Goethean, even Shakespearean gamut of characters--from a university professor to the almost bestial beings that infest Central Park. And Miller's language rises at times to impressive prose poetry: "The wish to kill is never killed, but with some gift of courage one may look into its face when it appears and with a stroke of love--as to an idiot in the house--forgive...
When the sun has set, the guardian ants come out of the burrow and climb into the bush. They inspect every twig and leaf, looking for marauders, especially the fierce, predatory ants that infest the pinewoods and would quickly slaughter the caterpillars. When Ross put spiders or beetles on the bushes, the protecting ants found them at once and quickly dragged them away. About 7:30 p.m., the caterpillar is let out of its burrow. Shepherded by the carpenter ants, it climbs to the topmost leaves of the bush and starts feeding greedily. The ants climb aboard and drink...
What's wrong? Every baseball mogul has a theory. In Houston, there are the helicopter-sized mosquitoes that infest the ballpark. Washington's Joseph Burke picks on TV: "If the team is losing, people naturally stay home and watch the tube." Judge Robert Cannon, counsel for the Major League Players' Association, says it's all the fault of the baseball fan's economy. "Unemployment is high and money is scarce," says Cannon. "The guy with the big family can't afford to take his kids to the ball game as often as he once...