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...R.C.A.F. officer turned grocery-store manager. By the time they finally settled in Saskatoon, the rugged beauty of Saskatchewan had given Joan Anderson the inspiration to become an artist. With money earned as a waitress at a coffeehouse named after Folk Hero Louis Kiel, Joan bought pens and ink. She also taught herself the baritone ukulele. But her attentions soon turned to rock 'n' roll...
...delicate lithography. There are two views of clumped, tangled grasses or mosses by Walter Bender. And Keith Courtway's abstract arrangement of almost imperceptible floating lines amid exploding flurries of black line unsettles you with its elusive resemblance to something organic. A squatting woman printed in black ink on white by Ruth Hayes provides the focus for a tiny yet solid composition...
SPORTS. Investors in the new World Football League, World Hockey Association and World Team Tennis franchises are drowning in red ink. "It's hard to get people to back up struggling franchises now," says Boston Sports Attorney Bob Woolf, and TV networks no longer bail out new leagues with-fat broadcast contracts. Even long-established leagues are suffering: a majority of the National Basketball Association's 18 teams are losing money. Once unobtainable, tickets to New York Knicks games against N.B.A. opponents are suddenly easier to get now that inflation has driven Madison Square Garden ticket prices...
...mass-production methods result in a relatively tasteless brew (which also tends to lack the dead rats and flies that spiced old-time likker). White lightning may yet find its uses. Once, when an agent cleaned off his fingerprinting machine with some confiscated corn, he found that it dissolved ink much faster than commercial solvents. Lightning fast...
...sexes and participants in human existence, a woman is defined in terms of her possession of a sex ("woman"), while a man is defined in terms of his human status ("artist"). With a psychological frame-up like that, it's easy to see why women turn to paper and ink for human companionship...