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Yanceyville
Yanceyville is a quiet town of 1,300. The tobacco barns give out just before the new high school and junior high; from the schools you can see the courthouse at the center of town.
October 1977Nuclear Energy: Our Faustian Bargain?
Governor Meldrin Thomson flew in in his helicopter. He’d originally teamed up with the Public Service Company of New Hampshire to push the twin 1150 megawatt set of nuclear power plants, among the biggest ever built, on New Hampshire’s coast, all 18 miles of it. Seabrook got selected without knowing it.
October 1977Cartoons By David Terrenoire
The cartoons in this selection are available as a PDF only. Click here to download.
October 1977Will An Apple Turnover A Day Keep The Doctor Away?
Initial decisions about what we will eat are made by the supermarket chains when they divvy up their shelf space. And these decisions are based on different values than we would apply. More often than not, the result is one row of fresh fruits and vegetables and ten or twelve rows of boxes and cans.
October 1977Bringing Black Holes To Light
Hawking takes on Einstein directly: “It therefore seems that Einstein was doubly wrong when he said ‘God does not play dice.’ Consideration of particle emission from black holes would seem to suggest that God not only plays dice but sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.” Where they can’t be seen is black holes, where singularities dwell.
October 1977Photographs By Gary Thaxton And Enrique Vega
Gary and Enrique will be exhibiting a two-artist show at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts (SECCA), 750 Marguerite Drive, Winston-Salem, through October 28.
October 1977Paul And The Finger And Steely Dan
He was no one you’d pause to stare at; it was what he said that belied his craziness. Ask him any question; he would answer it as perversely as possible, every time. “Paul, what’s it like outside?” “It’s a perfect day for a rape.” “Paul, what’s for dinner?” “Children’s genitalia, in red clam sauce.”
October 1977Photograph By Ron Howard
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October 1977A Secret Garden
Chosen for their distinctive aroma and taste, les fines herbes have a charming ability to stand on their own, or to mingle pleasantly, like party goers.
September 1977Lancelot
Book Review
Walker Percy has imagined an ideal listener for his narrative, inserted him in the novel, and allowed him to appear only through the eyes of the narrator. The novel opens — “Come into my cell. Make yourself at home. Take the chair. I’ll sit on the cot.”
September 1977
