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...Being There, the film version of Jerzy Kosinski's novel about how a totally blank, isolated man, whose only knowledge of the world comes from television, emerges from the Edenic walled garden he has tended all his life to become a presidential adviser, media pundit and, finally, presidential timber himself. Sellers has indicated that in this character of Chance the gardener (Chauncey Gardiner, as his fancy new friends later take to calling him), he has metaphorically projected more of himself than he ever did in any of his previous 50-odd screen appearances. It was, for him, a painful process?...
...performed well. In the past two weeks, as one big oil company after another posted hefty fourth-quarter profits, their stock prices leaped daily. During January, Exxon was up 5¾, to 60⅞, Mobil rose 3⅜, to 58⅜, and others racked up equally impressive rises. Coal, timber and copper producers, which like the oil companies deal in irreplaceable or depletable assets, also showed strong gains...
Shares of gold-and silver-mining companies leaped on Wall Street, as did the stocks of many so-called asset companies. Unlike financial, service or processing firms, the corporations that possess coal, oil, timber, copper or other resources have assets that retain value no matter what happens to inflation, the dollar or the economy...
...years experimenting with different materials and environments in his work. At a gallery in New York he dropped 800 plastic blocks from a canvas bag and, letting gravity arrange them, called it "Spill." For "Joint" he lined up a row of hay bales across a field in Vermont. The timber, granite, and metals now assembled in Boston reflect his childhood years near the shipyards and stone quarries of Quincy, Mass...
...owner of a timber management firm in Jackson, Miss., Vardaman consulted ornithologists for the best birding areas around the U.S. He hired local guides to point out species to him. On one memorable January day near Point Reyes, Calif., Vardaman sighted 111 different varieties. Every two weeks he mailed out a newsletter to 1,150 "birders," as the devotees call themselves, asking them to call him collect with news of rare species in their regions ("Ask for Birdman"). He hired planes and boats and bushwacked through the woods of northern Minnesota. He flew to Alaska four times and spent...