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...stands collapsed under a large crowd watching team handball (injuring six spectators), riding a helicopter over the freeways checking traffic (the gridlock that the press had predicted for a year did not materialize). To boost spirits, Ueberroth wore a different uniform each day: a bus driver's suit, a kitchen staffer's whites, a blue and gold usher's shirt. He strapped an electronic gadget on his hip that delivered printed, urgent messages...
...defense, the press can point to the many times in recent history the truth was not demanded about governmental actions and was not told. Before the press lets down its guard too far someone always remembers Harry Truman's remark about who belongs in the kitchen's heat...
...world is hardly in need of new alphabet books. The shelves of every children's library sag with them. But Bert Kitchen's Animal Alphabet (Dial; $11.95) should displace a score of bygone manuals. Each member of his wild kingdom is involved with the letter that begins its name: the koala hugs the main stem of the K; two bats hang from the crossbars of the B; an ostrich peers out from the great hole of the O. This is no restatement of the obvious; an elephant may push an E, but what is that long-tailed bird...
There are illustrators and illustrators. But there is only one Maurice Sendak. His drawings for Grimm fairy tales and his million-copy bestseller, Where the Wild Things Are (1963), unfolded the primary metaphors of dreams; In the Night Kitchen (1970) fused Walt Disney, Laurel and Hardy, the comic strips of Winsor McCay and the reassuring images of bread and bed; Outside Over There (1981), the story of an airborne young heroine, had the enchanting quality of classical ballet. After that, Sendak's interests turned to the stage, and he designed the sets and costumes for Leos Janacek...
...Gucci shoes were waiting for the Treasury Department's 262-page, blue-bound Tax Reform for Fairness, Simplicity and Economic Growth. The Government printed 5,500 copies but quickly sold out the $8 volume, so great was the demand. Marveled a Treasury spokesman: "It looked like a soup kitchen for the well-heeled...