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...prose poem's main subject in its title, a technique which allows the first lines to focus on an action rather than a noun. Hence the line "laying the foundations of a community, she labors all alone" carries an immediate impetus in a poem called "Regret for a Spider...
...YEARS of making feature films, Bernardo Bertolucci should know better. The writer and director of such controversial, often ponderous works as Last Tango in Paris and 1900 attempts, with The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man, to return to the earlier sparse style which marked his powerful 1969 film The Spider's Strategem. Unfortunately, Bertolucci's recent film cannot match such earlier efforts, and its attempt to study paradox and ambiguity flounders in a self-conscious plot which even the wonderful lead actor and fine cinematography cannot salvage...
...Watergate made only too evident, no one could possibly prearrange every conversation during every waking hour over a period of years. The spider got entangled in its own web. Even had Watergate not occurred, the tapes would have damaged Nixon's reputation severely. Had the tapes trickled out posthumously, as planned, Nixon would have managed the extraordinary feat of committing suicide after his death...
...White's lovely fable Charlotte's Web, the literate spider Charlotte saves a pig named Wilbur from execution by spinning blurbs about him in the barn doorway: SOME PIG, RADIANT, and so on. The astonished farm folk put away their thoughts of slaughter; they no longer regard Wilbur as pork, but as a tourist attraction, and even a celebrity who enjoys the favor of higher powers. Sweet Wilbur will survive to grow old in the barnyard. He gratefully sighs, "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer...
...back of the command cabin, had originally been scheduled to try the arm's gripping apparatus on a fixture in the cargo bay. But the trial was scrubbed because of problems with the arm's hand, known in NASAese as an "end effector." Eventually, the spider-web-like wire snare should be able to capture any satellite equipped with appropriately mated hooks. On this voyage, Truly will only guide the 50-ft.-long arm through various manipulations of its "shoulder," "elbow" and "wrist" joints. If the machinery jams when the arm is extended, one of the spacemen will...