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...narrating a video version of Strunk and White's classic writing manual, The Elements of Style. But why would anyone who cares about the distinction between "irritate" and "aggravate" be watching a videotape instead of reading the book? A slew of soothing "mood tapes," ranging from Video Fireplace to Loon Country by Canoe (natural sounds only), is relaxing, all right, but so is a test pattern. On the other hand, after a session with Betty White's Learn to Fox Trot Course or How to Have a Moneymaking Garage Sale, starring Phyllis Diller (Terrifying realism! Claws at your unbelieving mind...
CALL HER Betty the Loon, or call her a caring mother who just does not care about the right things in the right way. But whatever you call her, Beatrice, the main character of Paul Zindel's short play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, is a compelling figure whose life has gone awry...
...issues. DDT nearly wiped out the osprey and the peregrine falcon. On April 19, the last California condor was taken from the wild. "We have to convert interest in birds into backing for conservation," says Arnold Brown of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. "It's one thing to admire a loon and another to realize that it's our oldest bird, 70 million years old, and in trouble from acid rain...
...writing about an old goat at town hall." Such reflections come naturally to the Alabama-born Jaynes, who remains very much the Southerner. Yet his patchwork-quilt collection of pieces covers every section of the nation. Among the subjects that have piqued his interest are the loon preservationists in New Hampshire, a restaurant in Barrow, Alaska, that is the only place to find Mexican food in the Arctic Circle, and an entrepreneur in Des Moines who sells live bait through vending machines...
Ginsberg inscribed a quote from author Jack Kerouac and stamped an orange-ink copy of his Buddhiss name, "Loon of Dharma," Into the young man's book...