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Putnam supplies yarn to 25 or so knitters, who work at home on machines they buy from manufacturers for $350 and up. Each worker is paid, in venerable cottage-industry fashion, by the piece. The knitters seem to like the arrangement just fine. The U.S. Department of Labor does not. Although never actually sued by the department, Putnam is apparently in violation of Title 29, Chapter V, Part 530, Subsection 2, of the Code of Federal Regulations, which, as any citizen knows, prohibits homework in the knitted outerwear industry...
...medium. What sympathy one feels for the attempt to solve difficult problems of translation is soon submerged in a tedium that could be dangerous. A couple more minutes of this stuff could lead to Altered States-or anyway, to trying to remember where it, or some other lively yarn, is playing...
Edwards, an oral surgeon by profession, is a backslapping, yarn-spinning politician of the old Southern school. He is married and has two grown children. He concedes that he is "not an expert on energy matters." But he maintains that the interest he took in energy while serving as Governor, when he created the South Carolina Energy Research Institute, qualifies him for the post in the Reagan Cabinet." He advocates stepped-up development of nuclear power as "the cheapest, the safest and the cleanest" source of energy available. He wants to abolish regulations that are "standing...
...simple fidelity to detail that has made L'Amour's novels excep tional bestsellers. His popularity keeps growing because, in an epoch of prose experiments and self-conscious narrative, he has never forgotten to spin his yarn. "My books are meant to be read aloud," he says. "I'm a troubadour, a village taleteller. I'm the guy at the end of the bar or in the shadows of the campfire." In the past decade, he has become a kind of Woody Guthrie of fiction, a conservative populist who believes the myths he creates...
...subservient to Hill's vision. The story is simple on its surface, hardly more than a string of incidents, most of them violent but only occasionally (and then effectively) bloody. Nor does Hill try to cop a plea for his out laws by introducing that familiar James-boys yarn in which the returning Civil War veterans become populist folk heroes by trying to expropriate from the expropriators. One gets the feeling that they would have found their way to crime anyway, as a suitable line for brave, hard men. The Pinkertons (led by James Whitmore Jr. in another good...