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...chicken coops and broken tree branches Paul Rice has to steer his flat-bottomed boat past to reach his submerged home in St. Charles County. Or the lumber, three ice chests and four plastic garbage cans he has plucked from the waters around his house and placed on his roof -- still a foot above the waterline. In some areas, agricultural chemicals and human and animal wastes will be mixed with the debris. And of course, mud -- tons and tons and tons...
...Mike has returned to the house in a neighbor's boat to inspect it; late last week 6 ft. of water sloshed around the living room. The family, plus two Chow show dogs and two Persian cats, is living in Mike's blue 1992 Bronco; Mike sleeps on the roof. Nearby, the roof of the family's second car, a 1977 Cutlass, is barely visible above the water. "It's a goner," says Mike...
...National Commission on AIDS completed four years of work with a bitter report charging that prejudice and political inertia have prevented the nation from making an adequate response to the epidemic. "I think a lot of people in America don't believe the roof is about to cave in on them," said one member...
...doesn't mean that his landscapes are more "expressive," only that they radiate a greater sense of freedom. "The presence in a painting," he once wrote, "is like the presence a child feels and recognizes in things and the way they relate, like a doorknob, the slant of a roof . . . Art does not succeed by compelling you to like it, but by making you feel this presence in it. . . ((which)) can be impersonal." There is enough of this "presence" in Porter's work to place it among the finest landscape painting ever done by an American...
...long and varied stage career, which included appearances in the Broadway runs of "Mrs. McThing," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Love's Labors Lost," "Texas Trilogy," "Hamlet" and "Our Town...