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...find Las Vegas very attractive. More importantly, his insistence on analyzing the strip as simply a pretty visual image leads him to exclude many of the factors that have given rise to such an environment. He relishes the effects and ignores the causes. And his pleas to the reader to let him analyze his images to the exclusion of social issues only make it harder to be lenient...
...Atlanta Constitution and the Washington Post, Patterson too was disenchanted with the detachment of traditional editorials. He had worked as a journalist during the Southern integration disputes of the 1960s. Of those days Patterson recalls: "I was constantly puzzled by my inability to make a rational argument heard. The reader tunes out what threatens him. You have to let him know you understand his position...
...Pittman worries that the format could occasionally reinforce bigoted or lunatic-fringe positions by making them seem legitimate. Despite such reservations, the editors are convinced that the pro-con page is doing what an editorial page ought to do: inform and influence public debate. Says Patterson: "You disarm the reader. Communication is the art of getting what you say received, not just saying...
...carved inside the skull of anyone who approaches a gift-book counter in the next few weeks: "A good book badly printed is infinitely more valuable than a bad book beautifully printed." Fortunately the maxim is not mocked here. The text, by several authorities, is for the general reader who wants to learn. Title notwithstanding, less space is devoted to the bound book than to its precursor the manuscript, whose history is far longer and richer. From Mesopotamia to William Morris, from the lacquered bindings of Persia to the bejeweled Gospels of the Dark Ages, the book manages to convey...
...DOLL Text by Carl Fox. Photographs by H. Landshoff. 343 pages. Abrams. $30. Once past the pretentious text, which suggests that doll making is some sort of high art, the reader is confronted by pages of handsomely photographed blank stares from a vast assortment of practice babies and surrogate siblings for the young, as well as those slightly sinister dolls for adults-voodoo effigies for black magic...