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...describe a peach too perfectly," William Gass has written, "it is the poem that will make your mouth water...while the real peach rots." Photography's grip on reality can seem so compellingly firm and immediate that it is liable to be more persuasive, and pernicious, in its distortions, evasions and half-truths than any other imagemaking medium. Accordingly, the same peach can rot much faster in a photograph than in a painting or poem, and is likely to rot all the more completely. Even the percipient mind that recognizes beauty in all things, and that understands how an artist...
...professional staffs to attract meetings. New York City's Convention and Visitors Bureau has five traveling salesmen trying to persuade trade and professional groups to gather in the Big Apple. The Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau also has a field force of five convention hunters out plugging the Big Peach. Miami employs four to tout the Big Orange, while Waikiki sent a representative to Austria to bag the Lions International for the Big Pineapple...
...declared. Bubble baths, baby-doll costumes and the like having been prescribed in her bestselling books The Total Woman and Total Joy, Marabel has moved on to the kitchen to assemble a total woman's cookbook for publication next spring. Her recipes lean heavily on their titles (Heavenly Peach Pie, Boudoir Cheesecake), and her menus on their scenarios. Thus the You Tiger You meal features a hearty beef Stroganoff and a Reconcile Feast includes stuffed pork chops and coconut cream pie. "It's so important," she insists, "to furnish men happy moments at mealtime." Her husband Charlie takes...
...they said to me, they said --there's a clone army, a"Rock and Roll Heaven," these people, they've had plastic surgery, they're there, in the City of the Peach and of the Peanut, assembling to take over rock and roll from the Stones and Dylan and, and, WE WANT...
...across the U.S. the plague of insects is one of the most intense and varied in years. The worst grasshopper attack in two decades has moved south through the Plains states into Texas, turning millions of acres of green crops into wastelands. In north central Texas, the grasshoppers attacked peach trees so voraciously that little but the exposed pits remain clinging to half-eaten branches...