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...Sweet Bird of Youth...
...Pollution, increasing salinity and encroaching farms and housing developments have reduced the wading-bird population in Florida's Everglades National Park by 90%, down from 2.5 million in the 1930s to 250,000 now. Thousands of acres in the "River of Grass" have been contaminated by pesticides from agricultural runoff...
...which is rescued by being exquisitely beautiful. Clarke usually credits a painter with inspiring her imagery. This time it is Tiepolo. But the ancient crone sweeping and cackling, the commedia dell'arte clowns, the quartet of nude women gently interweaving in a dance, the men employing a variety of bird noises, the eerily believable copulation between a girl and a skeleton also bring to mind Cocteau and Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Diaghilev. If more explicitly violent and more frequently nude than necessary, Miracolo is nonetheless a fitting tribute to what was freshest and most original in early 20th century...
...desk. More than any other White House staffer since Michael Deaver, Duberstein has taken pains to develop a good relationship with Nancy Reagan. He and the First Lady talk at least twice a day. Duberstein's energy and loyalty led Baker to compare him to a bird dog. Hence Baker's nickname for him: "Duberdog...
...will add some majesty to the estate. Never mind that few climates in the U.S. could conceivably produce the soggy consolation that England provides its gardeners. What weather cannot provide, clutter can. So there is a thriving market in gazebo kits, stone dogs with baskets in their mouths, gates, bird feeders, Gothic porches and dovecotes...