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...chapters across the nation. To qualify for membership, a motor-home owner must have a vehicle that is at least 18 ft. long, is "self-contained," meaning that it has an on-board sanitary system, galley and generator, and is built so that an adult can walk upright from driver's seat to back. Some come with multiple color TVs and air conditioners, CB radios, trash compactors, ice makers, built-in vacuum cleaners, music centers and, in the case of Jim and Dee Foss, a Hammond organ...
...trick is how to walk on water without, as V.N. warned, "descending upright among staring fish." Great novelists are born with the knack. Good journalists must master it. Jane Howard is a good journalist. In fact, she is one of the best of those soft-stepping Austenian observers who seem to glide easily over a situation or a subject without leaving a distorting wake. "My way," she writes, "is to use my intuition as a compass, go where I feel welcome, stay as long as I can manage to, meet whoever is around, help them do what they are doing...
...CURTAIN RISES, someone is pounding out Scott Joplin and vaudeville tunes on the upright piano in the corner. Credits appear like titles from a 1910 silent movie: "Executive Producer--John Cooper; Director--Evangeline Morphos; Set Designer--Martin Shofner." The Hasty Pudding Theater has been transformed into a nickelodeon for Measure for Measure. the premiere production of The Harvard Shakespeare Theater. It's an extraordinary and ambitious first appearance...
...state of hilarious discombobulation, jarred our sense of anatomical propriety from the start. Clad in screaming pink, her face masked white, Chin crawled on stage wearing a sneaker on one foot and one hand; the other leg, draped in purple, dragging behind her like a tail. Once upright, she moved hand-over-hand down her outstretched leg to reach and untie the sneaker, as though her entire body would fly apart at any moment if she were less than excruciatingly careful. The contrast between an animal's lithe movements and the spasmodic fragility of the upright dancer was maintained throughout...
...trembled and the sky darkened with clouds of dust as the volcanic eruptions began. Startled, the animals gathered at the water hole?hyenas, saber-toothed tigers, giant elephants ?took off in a great stampede. Joining in the flight were small creatures that though they looked like apes, walked upright. Before long, the rain of volcanic ash had completely buried the site and all signs of the life around...