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...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 1/17/1990 | See Source »

...there more athletic types in Kirkland than in Adams. At the risk of going too far out on a limb, I'm going to say yes. But the residents of both houses, people mature and intelligent enough to make decisions for themselves, chose to live with people of similar interests, thinking that such an arrangement was not inherently evil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jewett Plan is Breach of Faith | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

Buyers also like the idea of the specialty shop. Bodhi Tree Bookstore, the shop in Los Angeles that was featured in Out on a Limb, the TV-movie version of Shirley MacLaine's autobiography, is a pit stop for New Age readers who find that titles like Where Are You Going? help them get in touch with their feelings. The National Intelligence Book Center, which only the most persistent sleuth can find (in an appropriately nondescript Washington building), confines itself to publications on spies and spying; the customers, insists director Elizabeth Bancroft, are mostly professional spooks, who practically need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rattling | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

...tree shed beads of sap, he said, "it's weeping. This tree is under a tremendous amount of stress." Velpar maker Du Pont has put up a $10,000 reward for the capture of the tree's poisoner. Says a poster at the tree: HANG HIM FROM THE HIGHEST LIMB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: Please Don't Die, Tree | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

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