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...explains, "is essentially therapy for me. It's a way of taking away the feeling of impotence one has about a situation." In their vitriol, Sorel's pen-and-ink drawings lean somewhat on Levine. But in their artistic style -the absurd settings, the disproportionate figures-they trace back much more directly to Sir John Tenniel, the Victorian artist who illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
...authors attempt to trace their subjects' activities back home, but, predictably, the book teeters for lack of authoritative information. It is clear enough, however, that the returning scientists did their job well...
Composer Carl Ruggles has had a writer's block that has stretched out for nearly all of his 92 years. He toiled for ages on a single work. Writing with crayons on brown wrapping paper, he would trace out his python-long melodies, then weave dissonance into dissonance, then unravel the whole thing and start again. His long opera The Sunken Bell (1923) occupied his time for 13 years. And just when it was near completion, Ruggles threw the score aside in a furious fit of dissatisfaction and abandoned it forever. That helps to explain why he has produced...
...cars. A few weeks later, a second batch of certified letters is sent to all those who have not responded. After that, the quest is turned over to Detroit's R. L. Polk & Co., which keeps track of car registrations across the country. Polk thereupon sets out to trace nonanswering owners through serial numbers and licensing bureaus. It goes this far: last year G.M. and Polk, toward the end of an Oldsmobile cam paign, narrowed the field of unaccounted-for cars to three, and the searchers have not yet given up on them...
...Glasgow or London. Still, that has not prevented the British army's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from enjoying a reputation almost as fierce as that of the mountain lairds of ancient Scotland. Some of the kilted troops, in fact, especially when the skirling of the pipers is loudest, trace the beginning of the regiment to "the licking we gave the English at Bannockburn" in 1314, when Scotland won temporary independence. Last week Britain finally gained a revenge of sorts. As part of its military cutback, the Defense Ministry announced, one of Scotland's most famous military units will...