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...martial, however. A Sally Field movie due out this week, Places in the Heart, is a highly sentimental, richly American story: a Texas widow during the Depression takes up cotton farming to keep her homestead and family together. Blue Highways, the bestselling account of a 13,000-mile trip down back roads, made a reassuring case that the American fabric still looks like a charming country quilt. American architecture has been pursuing a rather whimsical rediscovery of its home-grown past: flimsy roadside commercial buildings are regarded as significant folk design, for instance, and turn-of-the-century housing styles...
...exhorting 350,000 Moroccans to march unarmed into the disputed territory while Spanish soldiers looked on in disbelief. He gained the upper hand in his eight-year desert war with the Marxist Polisario guerrillas by enclosing almost half of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara with a 750-mile-long wall of sand and rock. Just last month he caught Western leaders off balance yet again by signing a treaty of friendship with Libya's notorious Muammar Gaddafi. Says a West European diplomat: "No matter what Hassan does, it seems to turn out all right...
After a lawsuit and a series of tough direct actions by ACORN members, the city settled out of court for a campsite a mile from the Convention Center, beside the major highway used by delegates coming from the airport to Dallas. In addition, the city agreed to set up showers, toilets, and running water for the campers. Not quite the fancy Anatole Hotel, but bearable...
...birds themselves are funny though. John McPhee observed that a loon's "maximum air speed is 60 miles an hour, and his stall-out speed must be 59. Anyway, he scarcely slows up, apparently because he thinks he will fall." Big fat feet out behind them, they crash-land on their bellies, an avian comedy. On land, they flop along on their stomachs. When it rains, they mistake highways for lakes, come down like thunderbolts. People are always tending their abrasions and taking them back to ponds. To take off, they need as much as a quarter-mile...
...black, will turn gray-brown. The jet-black head and bill will go dull gray, pale white. The neckbands−brilliant, symmetrical hash marks−will disappear. And so will the loons. Put a telescope on the beaches of North Carolina, or Florida, aim it out to the three-mile marker, near the sea lanes, and there the loons will be, riding the water...