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...William Steig seems to have found the secret of eternal freshness: compose a children's book nearly every year. For 1985, it is Solomon the Rusty Nail (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95). A jaunty rabbit finds that he can turn himself into the useless metal object any time he wants to. But Solomon shows off once too often, and he is captured by Ambrose the hungry cat. Although the rabbit avoids becoming a dinner by remaining a nail, he is trapped in that role when the angry feline hammers him into the side of a house. The nail whiles away...
Spaulding and Slye--a company that has been constructing a fourstory office complex next to the site of the tree at 1000 Mass Ave.--charged that the city exceeded its authority in trying to "to designate something other than a man-made structure or object as a landmark...
...politically savvy Eighth District, which includes Harvard University and M.I.T., may not want to elect a novice who might start campaigning for higher office within the year. They have grown accustomed to long-term representatives: O'Neill has served since 1952. The usually left-of-center district may also object to the neoliberal tone of Joseph Kennedy's announcement speech: "The days of taxing and spending are over," he proclaimed. "What's needed in Washington is . . . someone who knows how to balance the books, get action and utilize some creativity...
...size works to spare his subjects from condescension. These are not little cameos of dismay to be viewed at arm's length with the lips pursed. Facing figures of this dimension, hung so that their eyes are at or near eye level, the viewer feels himself to be the object of their scrutiny too. Confronted that way, one does more than take note of their mood. One tries it on, perhaps to discover the unsettled states within oneself...
...source indicated that the fairhaired Princess, object of desire for most men in the Western World, will probably take a job at Harvard or in the Cambridge area. The source mentioned a counter-job at Au Bon Pain and a position in Harvard's Expository writing program as two possibilities in Diana's future...