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...reforms to get out of hand. Though the government has formally abolished censorship, for example, it asks editors not to write about some 12,000 items on a list of "state secrets." The list includes such seemingly harmless subjects as the price of veal and the cost of spinning yarn; to many editors, it is censorship in another form...
Boasting qualities that are superior to the most luxurious silk fabrics, Qiana gives all the appearance of silk-from the luster of its surface yarn to its light weight, drape and color. Added to this, exotic sounding Qiana-a computerized combination of random letters-is a practical drip-dry wonder that can be machine-washed and still resist wrinkles...
TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. High camp comes artfully close to original Americana in this yarn of a sassy 14-year-old Arkansan heroine who avenged the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...
...TALKED TOO MUCH, by Amelia Elizabeth Walden (Westminster; $3.75). A brisk spy yarn, set in the Middle East, in which the double martini is replaced by "a fine towering strawberry parfait...
...Mark's Episcopal Church in Berkeley, Calif., a bishop and priests in white surplices and red stoles gathered around the altar for the ordination of a priest. Instead of the traditional ecclesiastical garb, the moustached young man in their midst wore a psychedelic chasuble festooned with yarn balls and tinkling bells. In the background, a group called Martha's Laundry blasted out rock settings of hymn tunes...