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...take an intimate view of the land. Paul Resika discovers "the light of sentiment" in the long summer twilight of Cape Cod. Jane Wilson is fascinated by the "weight of the sky" in Iowa. Other painters look ever more closely around them. Alan Gussow discerns a universe in Atlantic tidal pools; in a bunch of wild flowers, Ann Poor sees Maine's rocky land, autumn, perfection...
...When the Louis Budds inspected their new house in Tampa, Fla., they noticed a minor flaw: there was no water fit to drink. They sued the sellers of the house, only to be swamped with a tidal wave of legal argument. The 49-page defense brief, according to Florida Appellate Judge William C. Pierce, showed "exhaustive industry . . . citing and arguing 48 cases, five textbooks, four encyclopedias and one statutory provision. It abounds with sedulous references and dissertations on, among other things, percolating waters, the statute of frauds . . . express oral warranty theories . . . and the pyramiding of inferences. [But] when...
...Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. 261 pages. Barre Press, Imprint Society. $35. Written in 1903, this is still the world's greatest sailing suspense tale. It makes the cruise of two Edwardian Englishmen in tidal waters around Germany as immediate and harrowing as last summer's cruise to Cuttyhunk. Any sailor who hasn't read the book should do so. Unhappily, this special edition is tarted up with Rorschach-like woodcut and wash color illustrations, thus sabotaging the realism of tidal charts, maps and seamanlike detail. Readers with unlimited budgets might consider tearing...
...aftermath of the explosion of a Spartan warhead a mile below the surface of Amchitka Island, the world's environmentalists waited anxiously for the postoperative reports on what was surely one of the greatest shocks man had ever inflicted on his supportive earth. There were no earthquakes, no tidal waves. To date, it has been a case of no news being good news...
...Entire villages were wiped out, and the sodden ground was spotted with bloated corpses and the debris of houses, offices and shops. The port of Paradeep, India's eighth largest, was heavily damaged. Rivers overflowed their banks. Trees were uprooted and countless people were swept away in the tidal surge...