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...million," he guesses) from his late wife Marion. Retired early from his Wall Street law practice, he lives on his 10,000 mountainous acres in North Carolina, dabbles in his wife's philanthropies and plays a lot of golf. On the links, he has lately developed a nasty slice and the habit of blacking out and falling down. The problem is neurological, and something more. Percy writes: "There ... stands Will Barrett on the edge of a gorge in old Carolina, a talented agreeable wealthy man living in as pleasant an environment as one can imagine...
California voters also rejected the contoversial Proposition Nine, a proposal to slice state property taxes by 50 per cent...
...months ahead, residents of Ritzville and a large slice of the Northwest will have to live with the ash, a visible reminder of the titanic forces of nature that shape the earth. To volcano experts Mount St. Helens may be a baby and its eruption second-rate. But to the people in its path it was a catastrophe...
...book, La Methode, won the grand prize. Gathering to receive their awards, the three pitched into a mélange of asparagus, zucchini, cauliflower, carrots, tomatoes, eggs and rack of baby lamb. What was it such eminent cuisiniers prepared as the camera recorded each deft whip and slice? "A mess," confessed Pépin, doffing his apron and sitting down to tomato bisque, piccata of veal, and pommes parisiennes, with a '78 Widmer Cayuga, all done by someone else...
Side one's first selection--"TV Set"--perfectly demonstrates this principle: a straight slice of rocking blues, with a sweeping crescendo of an opening fit for the King himself. The sheer crunch of two guitars with nothing to anchor them to the rhythm boggles. More often than not, all three instrumentalists seem to play a note or more apart, creating more sonic splash than a complete collection of Carl Perkins records. The middle eight finds either Ivy or Gregory imitating the sound of static on a portable radio as you switch from one station to the next...