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...with a cache of ivory tusks. In Anno's crowded canvas, allusions are everywhere: the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, the paintings of Monet, the films of Rene Clair reach across the years. With his panoramic, limitless cast, this flea market constantly renews itself and seems, unlike the reader, incapable of growing up or growing...
Crown Press has produced a handsome edition of the new translation. A problem however with illustrating any great work is that the artist occasionally inflicts too much of his perception of the story upon the reader. Sometimes this is appreciated. Yet with a book like the Nutcracker, Illustrations are a dangerous business. Maurice Sendak is one of the finest creators of books for children. Many of the drawings accompanying the Nutcracker are the same drawings that functioned as the set for the recent ballet. Sendak also created more pictures for the book...
...past 15 years or so, reader interest in such issues has grown remarkably. Growing along with that interest has been more sophisticated medical reporting. "Journalists no longer uncritically accept the word of physicians," says Brand. They are far more knowledgeable now about medical issues, he adds, and about how such issues relate to larger concerns of society...
...commerce. Carpets and rugs from the 16th and 17th centuries demonstrate an imagination all but forgotten in modern examples. An antique Agra is alive with a profusion of delicate figuring; a new Agra is static and merely crowded. Inadvertently or not, Gans-Ruedin's selections give the reader a chance to compare the finest rugs with the run of the mill. It is one's best defense against a dealer's trumped-up superlatives...
...reader who described the magic of the number 40 says that Moses wandered in the wilderness for 40 days [LETTERS, Oct. 29]. The Jews never had it that easy: it was 40 years...