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...pine-swathed Bavarian mountain last week, U.S. Hunter Jack Johnson and his German guide suffered silently through a bone-chilling predawn drizzle. Suddenly, the woods ahead came alive to a bizarre sound: a series of clucks, like popping champagne corks, followed by a throaty gurgle. Johnson lurched forward for three steps, only to freeze motionless-one foot poised ludicrously in midair-as the sound stopped abruptly. In such quick, sporadic scrambles, Johnson covered 150 yds. before he spotted his quarry: a green-and-grey bird with red-hooded eyes, perched comfortably on a pine branch. Johnson's double-barreled...
...past 25 years, William Maxwell, 52, writes with more than a trace of the rueful resignation and wry disenchantment of much New Yorker fiction. His massive restraint sometimes brings his narrative to a dead halt; his quietness of tone sometimes verges on the inaudible. He can reduce the bone-wearying comic horrors of travel to a sentence as when Harold Rhodes, burdened with two lead-weight suitcases, just makes a train: "The station agent took their tickets gravely from between Harold's teeth." He has not created profound characters in the Rhodeses, but he has recorded a profound change...
Since osteopathy was founded by an M.D. named Andrew T. Still in 1874, it has steadily moved away from Still's reliance on the manipulation of bones, muscles and ligaments as a cure for all manner of aches and agues. The Lightning Bone Setter, as Still was known, thought that "the human engine is God's medical drugstore," but the average osteopath today prescribes more drugs for his patient than the average M.D. and uses musculoskeletal therapy as only an adjunct to surgery, X rays, serums...
...great career as Chancellor, his shift from worldling to ascetic, his clashes, as Archbishop of Canterbury, with Henry. If Anouilh's Henry is not quite a full portrait either, it is for an Olivier a fat part-a touch too fat, for it hides Henry's bone structure. But Olivier catches him in a whole succession of picturesque moments and shifting moods. As against Quinn's clodlike vigor. Olivier's Henry has an easy swagger, a skipping verve; he can be cruel, capricious, ironic, every inch a king less for greatness of will than assertiveness...
...Grow Old? Every girl is tight-corseted with the propaganda that she must have a slim, svelte figure, no matter what her natural body build or bone structure. She may react to this either by trimming down mercilessly and suffering near starvation; or she may surrender to the neurotic pleasures of overeating?all the time rationalizing that the trouble is in her glands (which it almost never is). Another deliberate anxiety builder is the slogan, "Why grow old?" It introduces a prescription containing a teaspoonful of wisdom, such as the values of exercise and a balanced diet, diluted...