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...tacky little room she rents in the Starlite Motel, where she can practice photography, be by herself a few hours a day to "work things out," or just "drift." All of us, sad to say, drift with her, back to the early days of her marriage, when she would thread a string from the bedroom to the front door of their little apartment and affix a note for Brad: "Roses are red, violets are blue/ Follow this string to an extra-special screw." Other recollections include birth ("Funny," Betty ruminates, "how you forget the actual pain and power of birth...
...blazer patches ($14.95) to watches ($49.95). The American Heraldry Foundation in Clearwater, Minn., has a different approach. For a $39.95 fee, customers can suggest the motif of their shields. The Beihoffers, a farming family from Buffalo Lake, Minn., for example, picked a horse and plowshare and a spool of thread (sewing is Opal Beihoffer's hobby) for their coat of arms; because marriage and the home are important to the family, they also chose a pair of intertwined rings and a front door (see cut). Says Marketing Manager James Sutton: "We got one request from a swine breeder...
...discovery he made when he was an undergraduate: the first four notes of Aaron Copland's Piano Variations rearranged and transposed in various ways turn up in all kinds of music, both Western and non-Western. A four note tune may seem to be a weak and superficial thread with which to bind music of different cultures, but it's the kind of thread Bernstein likes. A considerable amount of musical analysis in subsequent lectures is based on just this sort of tune-hunting...
Fiorello! is based on the early career of Fiorello H. LaGuardia up to the start of his successful campaign for mayor of New York City in 1933. His biography is a mere thread of a plot to connect a series of vignettes about fun-loving politicians in the 1920s. In addition to being the best-written parts of the show, these vignettes are irresistable in the way they seem also to satirize recent events. The claims of Tammany officials that they afforded various luxuries on their comparatively modest salaries by saving the pennies earned by, for example, returning empty milk...
...indeed be difficult to "thread a moving needle," but it takes a person of incredible naiveté to imagine that a woman can avoid violence by simply stepping out of the way. Given the choice, most women would submit to a rapist rather than face being disfigured or even murdered. Either way, the victim loses and she gets the added treat of reading letters written by men who either have no understanding of the problem or sympathize with the rapist...