Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STORYTELLING is a fickle art. A bad narrator can spin the thinnest yarn into a golden web. If the listener's imagination is to be ensnared, delicate tonalities of setting, suspense and mystery must be orchestrated to perfection. The same can also be said of story theatre...
...Revenue Service is guaranteed 3.5 million of the 5 million guaranteed the fighters, and is bound to get a sizeable chunk of the record-breaking $20 million take. And, of course, the takers won-Madison Square Garden and Fight of Champions, Inc., who promoted the fight internationally, the vast web of local promoters, ticket scalpers, bookies and sportswriters-are all enjoying fat times in Fat City...
...secular. But Western categories of what is or is not secular make less sense in the context of Japanese art, in which aesthetics is raised to the status of ethics, and any image, from a crane stepping into water to the gesture of a dancing girl, can disclose a web of references to safari, or illumination...
...will save him, and does. She does it by playing a trick on Mr. Zuckerman, who owns the farm where Charlotte, Wilbur, Templeton the rat, the cows, and the geese live. She knows that "people are very gullible... easily fooled," so she spins the words "SOME PIG" into her web, in the doorway above Wilbur's pen. Zuckerman is fooled, and decides that "a miracle has happened and a sign has occurred here on earth, right on our farm, and we have no ordinary pig." The local minister explains the miracle in his next sermon. "The words on the spider...
Buying a four-disc album of Charlotte's Web might seem extravagant when you can get the book, and Garth Williams' pictures (which the album does not have) for much less money. But hearing E. B. White read is worth something. He wrote Charlotte's Web to be read aloud, and in his straight forward style with his traces of Maine accent, he reads it as it should be read, speaking from experience about the life on a farm, about "digging reddish" and about wiping one's hands on a "roller- towel. " Maybe, if you have some friends without...