Word: crownings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BIGGEST BOOK FOR THE BUCK Weighing in at 7 lbs. and priced at $50, the new American edition of the French food encyclopedia Larousse Gastronomique, edited by Jenifer Harvey Lang (Crown), comes in at only 45 cents per oz., less than the price of fine veal or salmon. Rewritten and modernized in France, then translated in England and its measurements and ingredients Americanized, this essentially French work expands sections on China, Japan and the U.S. Too bad that the text and illustrations are so lackluster...
...novel, on the brink of the opera's opening night, the narrative pauses briefly to consider Oliver Twentyman, a trouper in his 80s who will sing the role of Merlin the magician: "He liked being old -- and still a great artist. Age, linked with achievement, was a splendid crown to life." So it is, as this novel and Davies' remarkable career munificently demonstrate...
Hockey Coach Bill Cleary is not asking for an ECAC Championship or an NCAA Tournament crown, things his team seems capable of winning on its own. All he wants for Christmas is a pot of beans...
...lesser hands, it might have been called gimmick literature. But there is a high purpose behind Look! Look! Look! (Greenwillow; $12.95). Regularly, a small window is cut out of a page. Peering through it, readers may see the crown on the Statue of Liberty, or the side of a briefcase or a mysterious red eye. The pages that follow reveal the whole photograph and provide some astonishments. The eye turns out to be rose petals. The briefcase is an elephant's tail. The crown is the center of a carousel wheel. Tana Hoban's pictures tell a double story...
...that they were simply doing their jobs: serving the interests of readers. John Hoagland Jr., manager of the Christian Science Publishing Society, says the paper's more than $200 million losses since 1961 represented a commitment that could not be maintained indefinitely. "It may be the jewel in the crown of the church," he says of the paper, "but you have to have a crown to have a jewel." The more the Monitor diversifies into other media, says Hoagland, "the sharper the requirement is for central management...