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Consequently, the show reads as a set of illustrations to the book, for only in the book can the comparison of demotic source with final object be done with the necessary detail. Varnedoe and Gopnik have gone into their subject with vast scholarly elan, mining arcana from the areas where...
No matter how he does in this race, his growing acceptability opens up many opportunities for him in 1991, when he can pick his target in a state where the open primary seems made for this kind of permanent campaigning. He can run for Governor, state senator, or the U.S...
Now comes Barbara Kingsolver, whose second novel, Animal Dreams, is an entertaining distillation of eco-feminist materials. There is the fragile landscape -- the fictional town of Grace, Ariz., whose river and Edenic orchards face extinction by the Black Mountain Mining Co. And there is the doughty heroine -- Codi Noline, who...
It is these women, with Codi's help, who set out to save the town from the mining company. Kingsolver introduces other complications, particularly the fate of Hallie, who has been captured by the U.S.-supported contras. To say everything is resolved happily would be misleading, but one hint may...
Mathers, 66, has seen the land ravaged by the plow, the water sucked from the aquifers and wasted, the oil and mining industries nose-dive, and the children of the plains rush for the rural exits. He was in the Montana legislature for 20 years.