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...require; even fewer know enough to supervise and coordinate the work of the craftsmen. It would take an expert to tell the good workmen from the many others who produce most of the grumbling about warping walls, quick-cracking concrete and misconnected electric lines. A homeowner can weed out the worst contractors by consulting his local Better Business Bureau, and the BBB can sometimes prod a contractor to correct faulty work. Most of the time, however, the harried homeowner must trust to hunch-and luck...
...find and ride them. An Arkansas housewife fills her house with flocks of birds that swirl through the rooms; she spends $200 a month to feed them-not to mention the cleaning bills. For ten years, a 52-year-old man named Clint Wescott camped in a weed-choked field in Los Angeles. Last year, when a New York lawyer tried to give him nearly $20,000 for the sale of the gas station that he had owned and abandoned, Wescott refused the money...
...Winthrop hockey team took over first place in the standings from Dunster House last Saturday, edging the Dunster squad, 3-1, in a nip-and-tuck battle. Sophomore Dave Rosenthal put Winthrop ahead in the first period, 1-0, but Dunster tied the game in the second period. Chuck Weed scored what proved to be the winning goal for Winthrop in the third period, but Rosenthal tallied once more to insure victory. Sam Perkins sparkled in the nets for Winthrop, deflecting many a Dunster barrage...
...ingenuity, Portnoy's Complaint flags in stretches. The ending is a boisterious but somewhat flatfooted way of getting Portnoy off the stage. On balance, however, Portnoy's Complaint is skillfully paced, eliciting more laughs per page than any novel in recent memory-Catch-22 and The Sot Weed Factor notwithstanding...
...green rose!" He shouted, "A green rose. Stephen Dedalus, it's a green rose." Yes, the boy had a sense for the aesthetics of the situation. He knew that the funny rubbery mountain weed by his side was not a green