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DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs elegantly interpreted Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville, Ark. Best known for the light tensile wooden Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Ark., Jones designed 135 houses and 15 chapels and churches in 20 states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture, designing buildings that blend comfortably with their natural surroundings. He typically relied on stone, cedar siding, wood shingles and discreet lighting for his creations, which included fountains, gardens and pavilions...
...deflate our faithful rafts. The river has let us pass, but at a price - not in weariness or bruises, but in a twisting of the heart. Later that afternoon some tourists arrive on sea planes to visit a nearby waterfall, staring at our dirty clothes draped along the wooden walkway. Two different groups of people go by before we realize that none of us has asked them what's happened while we've been away. We're still in the Irenabyss, listening for the currawongs...
...even documented with faux-scholarly footnotes. When spells are cast (and they frequently are--Clarke isn't one of those stingy fantasists who doles out, say, one spell every hundred pages), they come with consequences of both the intended and the unintended varieties. When Norrell brings to life the wooden figurehead of a captured French ship--he and Strange are enlisted in the fight against Napoleon--instead of divulging useful military secrets, the figurehead promptly cusses him out: "Having passed all her existence among sailors she knew a great many insults and bestowed them very readily on anyone who came...
...after Romania declared war on Germany, he was killed, reportedly by a Katyusha rocket, while fighting in a bunker just south of Ceanu Mare. Anica Cuc, 88, was 28 at the time. Taking a break in her garden from some afternoon weeding last week, she recalled an ox-drawn wooden cart pulling up outside the village church after the battle, where it deposited "eight or nine" bodies that were buried by German soldiers. "It was good that the Germans were buried near the church," she says. "They were human souls, not enemies, at least not to me." That remarkable sympathy...
...each player uses) is enjoyed casually by an estimated 15 million French people at least once a year - usually vacationers or older gents whiling away their retirement years. As unstrenuous as its British cousin, darts, pétanque requires contestants to toss their metal projectiles closer to a small wooden sphere than their rivals - either rolling or arching shots, or simply drilling an opposing boule into the weeds. But there are signs some of the 460,000 people registered to play pétanque competitively are taking things a little too seriously. An annual Montpellier tournament scheduled for last month...