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...feline hammers him into the side of a house. The nail whiles away the time by counting to a zillion, until the cat accidentally sets the house on fire, allowing Solomon to change into the first of the red-hot bunnies. Somehow, the author-artist never strains credulity and seldom fails to make the risible visible. Like the best cartoonists, Steig has always known exactly where to draw the line...
...dozen Ptolemys and Cleopatra enliven a history that contains the seeds of the Western imagination. Polish Professor Michalowski links chapters on anthropology, language, society and craft with more than 100 pages of diagrams and maps. Some 900 pictures, including 145 in color, illustrate masterpieces of sculpture and painting seldom seen in print. Here, scholarship and grandeur are inseparable...
...lively parade of names and incidents: Muhammad using an early version of the toothbrush; Henry VIII granting a charter for dental surgery to barbers; Paul Revere providing dental fillings before proceeding to larger items of silverware; Charles Lindbergh posing with his grandfather, the inventor of the porcelain jacket crown. Seldom has dentistry been so educational. Never has it been so painless...
...human face appears in Wild California: Vanishing Lands, Vanishing Wildlife by A. Starker Leopold and Raymond F. Dasmann (University of California; 144 pages; $29.95). A different breed of actors, seldom seen on Rodeo Drive, populates this sumptuous bargain of a book. San Joaquin kit foxes, yellow- bellied marmots, California bighorn sheep and mountain lions patrol the high mountains and hidden valleys; bald eagles and hawks, herons and condors find their lonesome rookeries. Some of Tupper Ansel Blake's photographs--a grove of bishop pines at Point Reyes, the promontories of Santa Cruz Island fading into the mist--evoke Japanese prints...
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence has sent a letter to the faculty asking members to propose reforms to a controversial, seldom-used College disciplinary body...