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Contents: Smithsonian Horizons, Letters to the Editor, Around the Mall and beyond, Picture Credits, Object at Hand, Phenomena, comment and notes, In Idaho, Apostles of Wilderness At Work (New-style rangers balance preservation, recreation and commerce at the Nez Perce National Forest), Making Art For Thought’s Sake (Rene Magritte used the power of images to provoke new ideas about the nature of existence and reality), Biltmore: Dream House for a Day (An enormous chateau built by George W. Vanderbilt in the 1890’s is an oasis for visitors in the 1990’s), “If a Poem gets Worse, Stamp Your Feet!” (At Chicago’s Green Mill, pugilists go at it verse for verse in the poetry prizefight known as the “slam”), Rome and Water – Together Again and Forever (The thirsty city’s amazing system of aqueducts and fountains has brought liquid joy since ancient days), Garth Fagan’s ‘Griot New York’ (The choreographer enlists Wynton Marsalis and Martin Puryear to spin a tale about big cilty life), Wolfgang Mieer, Turner of Proverbial Stones (“Proverbs are crystallized bits of wisdom” states this world authority as he compiles a “must know” list), ‘A River Runs Through It’ – a film at last (Robert Redford lovingly adapts Norman Maclean’s classic memoir of two brothers growing up in Montana), Book Reviews, Additional Reading, September Events at the Smithsonian, Smithsonian Tours, Seminars and Expeditions, Ouch! Sometimes It Hurts to Bring Up The Past
Issue: September 1992
Condition: Very Good