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...best writers in America, of any color or persuasion. This book, adapted from the longest story in his fine 1968 collection Bloodline, tells about a Louisiana black boy and his young parents, who are separated because the wife objects to her gadabout husband's secondhand car, coming together again only when he burns it up publicly to get himself back into his wife's good graces. Painful, hilarious and humane, it is so good a story that the illustrations, which are not bad, seem like a desecration...
...life insurance policies, used cars, and almost anything else sold secondhand-including houses, antiques, precious stones-and, according to a /uling last week, Christmas trees that are fresh-cut and not fireproofed or "treated...
...Boys. Margaret originally intended to become a biologist, and took up photography only in order to help pay for her last year at Cornell. Using a secondhand lea Reflex with a cracked lens that her mother had bought for $20, she shot campus scenes and sold them to students. Her early reputation was made in the unlikely field of industrial photography. Where others saw only grime, Bourke-White saw beauty; her camera could find drama and action in a factory. All the major pictures in FORTUNE'S first issue were by Bourke-White...
Soon after Herbert emerged from the anaesthesia, his secondhand heart and lungs were described as functioning adequately. In three days he was sitting up to eat breakfast. Then he suffered a setback and needed mechanical assistance in breathing. But at week's end Herbert was progressing satisfactorily...
...groups and occupations. Everything that is needed to outfit a studio, do up a loft or make an electronic sculpture lies within a few blocks, among the tool-rental businesses of Greene Street, the lumberyards of Spring and Wooster, the hardware stores on West Broadway, and the bazaars of secondhand circuitry, gadgets and plastics that line Canal Street. It would be easy, and foolish, to sentimentalize SoHo into a kind of American Montparnasse, full of jolly creative gnomes secreting art and sharing the chili. The fact is that life there is, in general, considerably more agreeable than in Greenwich Village...