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...pity the robin that tries to pluck a worm from a plastic "lawn" or build a nest in a synthetic "juniper." I pity any living thing that tries to live in the James Cummings' artificial "garden" [Aug. 7]. But most of all, I pity the people who are so insensitive as to mock and defile nature by conjuring up a plastic landscape in one of the most beautiful areas of the world-the Pacific Northwest...
...lawn. Lilacs festered in the garden...
...evidence that she lives a great deal in her imagination. She goes to a drive-in to think. Her first purchase when the six-figure movie and paperback money began coming in was a commodious secondhand station wagon: "For years I'd watched drive-in movies from a lawn chair while the girls sat in the Volkswagen. It was either that or scrunch up in back like Charles Laughton on top of Notre Dame." Even her speech shows certain dramatic cadences. Describing her research in children's books, she intones: "There did Marilyn Durham learn what dynamite looks...
...home sewer is youthful and fashion-hungry. The average age of the Ms. who makes her own clothes has dropped in the past few years from 47 to 23. Surveys show that 85% of all teen-age girls now sew. Many of them, like Sharon Sikora of Oak Lawn, Ill., do so for the obvious reason: "I want clothes that are different." Home economics classes, long known for their "horrible aprons and dumb blouses" (as one graduate put it), now feature smarter getups, from pantsuits to prom gowns. One Park Forest, Ill., teenager, Tova Kletnick, 16, has become so expert...
...been richly rewarded. Last year he was the highest-paid executive in Hawaii, collecting $174,000. Though he can afford better, he lives in a less than fashionable subdivision on the rainy windward side of Oahu, and has given up golf in favor of gardening and mowing his lawn with a small tractor. Explains Walker: "I crave solitude at times, and golf is a competition amongst men. I get enough of that in eight hours of work every day." But Walker may one day have to give up his enviably relaxed life-style on Hawaii...