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...directly, plus several zillion others. But Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is not, never has been, available for interviews. What can definitively be known about him has long since been tracked down. He was born May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, N.Y., into an old, distinguished New England family; one ancestor founded several towns in Massachusetts; another served as the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford. Pynchon graduated from Oyster Bay High School in 1953, enrolled at Cornell University, took time out to serve in the Navy, returned to college, worked on the literary magazine and received...
...architectural frame built, literally, like a picture window, so that one sat down on a bench and had the illusion of gazing from a Victorian living room into sublimity, complete with palms, parrots and Andean campesinos adoring a cross. If his other paintings prefigured CinemaScope, this one was the ancestor of the big-screen home...
...Piano Lesson (1989). An heirloom from a slave ancestor threatens to sunder members of the Charles clan: one wants to keep it as a reminder of suffering, another would sell it to buy the farm where the family were once chattel. Playwright August Wilson was the most important American stage voice to emerge in the '80s, and this piano is the most potent symbol in American drama since Laura Wingfield's glass menagerie...
...Will's mother and father inform him that his favorite fauna, the woolly mammoth, is extinct. But the boy knows better. Squinting his eyes, he manages to conjure up the prehistoric past, complete with saber- toothed tigers, early versions of horses, warthogs and, of course, the elephant's tusky ancestor. In Will's Mammoth (Putnam; $14.95), Stephen Gammell augments Rafe Martin's whimsical text with celebrations of early mammals, snow and that greatest of all time machines, a child's imagination...
...earth's landmasses were gathered into a single supercontinent, now called Pangea. Until the most recent find, only a smattering of Herrerasaurus bones had been unearthed. Now scientists will be able to look over the complete skeleton for important evolutionary clues. While Herrerasaurus is not the long sought common ancestor of all dinosaurs, notes Sereno, "it's close -- and maybe it's as close as we will ever...