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...going on, I should note that the soundtrack apparently has huge spoilers in the track listing; that is, the titles of the tracks give away key parts of the plot. I say apparently because I have avoided them assiduously, and listing them here would only, of course, tempt the reader to spoil it for him/herself as well. So while I will discuss the few pieces that won't give anything away (such as "Anakin's Theme"), you'll have to buy the soundtrack (or glance at the back in Newbury Comics) to find out what the rest...
...Drink of Water," tells of the way a family of cow-boy brothers viciously castrate a severely crippled man: Proulx comments, "Only earth and sky matter. Only the endlessly repeated flood of morning light. You begin to see that God does not owe us much beyond that." The reader should be grateful that Proulx does not often drop into this kind of openly reflective tone: she is at her best when carefully texturing rural life, when she tells her stories without wavering or flinching, without intruding into lives so deeply touching and so very distant and unchangeable they seem like...
Arts First also included a mind reader inMather House, an exhibition of candid Polaroidphotos taken Friday in the Yard and a performancetitled West Puppet Side Story...
Until recently those titles, whether classics or current best sellers, have been available mainly in loan libraries. Vernon Ellickson, 83, is a typical large-type reader. A retired farmer with macular degeneration, Ellickson goes to the library in Decorah, Iowa, twice a week to pick out his favorite westerns and adventure books. He never buys them. "It would cost a lot," says Ellickson, who often reads more than a dozen large-print books a week. Publisher Olsen says this is not unusual. "When you're on a fixed income, to pay for a one-time read is inefficient when...
...those interested in current events, the New York Times has a 40-page weekly digest of stories published in its regular daily paper. Similarly, Reader's Digest has a monthly large-size edition. "Circulation is going up," says Lesta Cordil, director of public relations for Reader's Digest. "It's not only aging baby boomers; we find that people who do a lot of computer use like the larger type. It's not just for older people anymore...