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...Bracelet, by Yoshiko Uchida (Philomel; $14.95). A clear, direct look at social injustice is especially hard in children's literature, whose traditions say wrongs must be made right. In 1942 the Japanese-American author was sent with her family to a detention camp, and this story and Joanna Yardley's warm, elegiac illustrations recall a time for which good explanations are still not available. The title refers to a bracelet given the Japanese-American heroine Emi, who's about eight, by her Anglo friend Laurie. The gift and the remembered friendship allow Emi to hope that peace and trust will...
Every year, my grandmother sends my sister a bracelet. We don't know why. My sister never wears bracelets...
...images are obvious: sun, moon, animals, plants such as squash blossoms. But just as surely as in 17th century Dutch painting, every object is a symbol too. Like Native Americans themselves, jewelry fanciers feel power in a massive Navajo turquoise bracelet, transcendence in a kachina, or spirit, figure. The entire craft is devoted to good luck...
...pair of Mephisto athletic shoes, then paces briskly on a treadmill for 30 minutes. He has been doing this every day since his heart attack in 1987. He flips through six newspapers, eats a cardiologically correct breakfast, changes into his street clothes and -- with an 18-karat Cartier bracelet on his right wrist and a sleek, all-black Movado watch on his left -- descends to his apartment-house garage. There he climbs into his black Lincoln Town Car and drives across the Key Bridge to Georgetown, where he gets his thinning hair done by Bernard of Okyo...
...five with a red bracelet has passed out in the crowd. Two workers rush over, hoist him by his spindly limbs and lay him down beneath a shade tree on the far side of the courtyard. The boy is suffering from severe dehydration, and the nurse hastily inserts an intravenous tube, hooking the bottle to a branch. It is too late. As the boy's eyes roll back beneath fluttering eyelids, an older woman gently presses them shut. The boy came from the village of Malwuen, 34 miles away, where both parents and eight of his brothers and sisters succumbed...