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...Seed on Good Earth. Leach's reputation as a bridge between Eastern and Western craft traditions-once a Zen Buddhist, he is now a devout member of the Baha'i faith-has helped to turn his St. Ives studio into a place of pilgrimage for hundreds of younger potters over the years. But the number of students working there remains limited to eleven. In an age of mechanical reproduction and mass production, the "Seventh Kenzan"-as some Japanese potters affectionately call him-has played a major part in preserving the old authority of the human hand. Above...
...hollow steel needles horizontally into the breast through the tumorous area and out the other side (see diagram). Thin plastic tubes are then threaded through the needles (which are subsequently removed) and anchored in place by small plastic buttons at either end. The iridium-in the form of tiny "seeds" embedded in a thin, stiff nylon ribbon -is inserted into the tubes. The outer layer of the seed is a steel sheathing; it blocks dangerous ionizing beta rays (electrons), but allows the escape of the high-energy gamma rays that destroy the tumor...
...touches only images of herself--never her true self. Self-conscious but skeptical, both are trapped in a void. More than an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's familiar tale, Rappaccini's Daughter, now at the Loeb Ex, is a new play by Octavio Paz who grows poetry around the seed of Hawthorne's prose. With Hawthorne compressed and Paz added, the play offers a bounty of interpretive possibilities, some of which this production is able to luxuriate...
...Miklos Petrovics, 40, seized two employees of a Culver City, Calif, branch of Bank America, demanded that the bank's air be filtered through bird seed, that the manager "cleanse himself in the ocean" and that "everyone join hands, walk to the ocean and meditate." Result: an FBI agent talked him into surrendering...
Lancelot Andrewes Lamar is Percy's most painful case to date. A Rhodes scholar and onetime football hero, he goes to seed in classic Southern style. He takes up the law, drink and the care of a rundown showplace home near New Orleans. Only when he suspects the infidelity of his second wife, Margot, a brassy Texan worth $10 million, does Lancelot realize what he has made of his life: "I had done nothing but fiddle at law, fiddle at history, keep up with the news (why?), watch Mary Tyler Moore, and drink myself into unconsciousness every night...