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...Father hurtles down from heaven, supported by blue cherubim and bowling before him an immense wheel depicting the concentric divisions of the universe -- the earth, the spheres of water, air and fire, those of the seven planets, the zodiac and the dark blue primum mobile. On the right, an angel chivies our first parents -- pale, forked creatures -- out of a tapestry paradise of emblematic plants...
...copper pots that sit on an industrial stove, with a wall of homemade preserves behind her and old-fashioned baskets above, Martha Stewart is right where she belongs -- in her big country kitchen. She is spinning sugar, a complex task that will result in a haze of edible angel hair adorning a dessert of red currant ice cream in brandy-snap cups. As she slings the liquid sugar onto a laundry rack with a flick of her whisk, Stewart effortlessly alternates advice ("The hot sugar can get stuck in your cats' fur. Keep them out of the room") and anecdotes...
...Nigel Holmes (Executive Director); Dorothy D. Chapman, Arthur Hochstein, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Billy Powers, Ina Saltz, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, James Elsis, Carol March (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief); John P. Dowd (Deputy); Stefano Arata, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...
...years is irresistible. All three converge in Dear Mili (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95), a long-lost Grimm tale in which a mother sends her child off to the forest as war approaches. Mili stumbles upon a safe house where she is sheltered by St. Joseph and her guardian angel. After three days the child is guided home, but in that time 30 years have passed. Mili is unchanged; her mother has dramatically aged. The conclusion is freighted with mystery, amplified by Sendak's floating vistas and romantic palette. Although themes of death and resurrection haunt the narrative, its illustrator removes...
...Nigel Holmes (Executive Director); Dorothy D. Chapman, Arthur Hochstein, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Billy Powers, Ina Saltz, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Angel Ackemyer, James Elsis, Carol March (Designers); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief); John P. Dowd (Deputy); Stefano Arata, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Cynthia Davis, Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...