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...LAST STEAM RAILROAD IN AMERICA Photographs by O. Winston Link; text by Thomas H. Garver (Abrams; $49.50). If you were in the driver's seat, it was the embodiment of Manifest Destiny. If you were in its way, as were the tribes of the Great Plains, it was the iron horse, snorting emissary of the unstoppable paleface invasion. Today the sooty beast is the stuff of nostalgia. This is a book of homage to those vanished symbols of expansion and industrial might. The evocative old images recall a time when belching smoke and slashing rail lines were signs of progress...
...TUSCANY Photographs by Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo; text by Marie-Ange Guillaume (Abbeville; $45). Tuscany ages well. It probably has something to do with the food, the wine, the art and centuries of adoration by foreigners. That this New York City husband-and-wife photography team can retain an enthusiastic eye after 30 years of travel through the region is evident in their fresh images of familiar Tuscan sights: Florence's rooftops, bell towers and famous statuary; Pisa's leaning tower; country villas and vineyards...
...articles about the Galileo spacecraft in the papers this week. The diagram on the front of the New York Times yesterday, with its careful description of the stages of parachute fallout on the surface of Jupiter, was masterfully done, but was more reminiscent of a high-school science text than a miracle of modern technology...
...What happens with the reader who doesn't recognize the limited nature of this literature? These pat explanations can then create biases and place limitations on how an individual views and listens to the opposite sex. After hearing a few words of explanation, we can already picture the corresponding text and pigeonhole the problem regardless of the real situation. People jump to conclusions and assume they understand what is going on simply because they read about it in a book, rather than because they have thought about it on their...
...Shakespeare's masques with new ones written and composed by Odland with the help of anthropologist David Guss. These masques, performed by Europe, Americas, and Africa, are intended to represent themes of nature and multiculturalism to a modern audience. Unfortunately, Daniels' masques replace a considerable chunk of the original text: but then again, Shakespeare's masques never got an audience to clap along...