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...Hilton hotel at Walt Disney World Village in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., has telephones that would fit into Disney's Tomorrowland. With 35 buttons instead of the standard twelve, the UTX Five Star phones do a lot more than just give a dial tone. As in many hotels, guests can press different buttons on the phone for food, a bell captain, a maid, the valet service or medical aid. But they can also hit other buttons to adjust the temperature setting, change the speed of the fan and switch channels on the TV. If a guest forgets to bolt...
Thus even for those who attend, much of Sarajevo will be what it is for the rest of the world: a channel number on a TV dial...
Seldom has anything so big ended so unceremoniously or uneventfully. Ma Bell simply walked offstage after 107 years, to no applause and no disruption in service. Millions of Americans picked up their telephones on New Year's Day and still got dial tones, as if nothing had happened...
Once the lights go out, it is still the 19th century as far as children and ghosts are concerned, reason enough for the perdurability of tales about phantoms, poltergeists and demons. A case in point: Esteban and the Ghost, adapted by Sibyl Hancock (Dial; $10.95). The hero, a wide-eyed tinker, plies his trade in the hills of Spain until he learns of a reward for anyone who can exorcise the ghost from a forbidding castle. The sprite can overwhelm anything except innocence, and Esteban not only survives but prevails. Together, he and the ghost recover some stolen treasure...
...Cooking of South-West France (Dial; $24.95), Wolfert presents the first up-to-date comprehensive study of this exemplary but little-known cuisine. She calls it "a magnificent peasant cookery in the process of being updated . . . modern, honest, yet still close to the earth." An inventive cook and author of two classic books, Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco and Mediterranean Cooking, Wolfert found herself committed to "a passionate long-term enterprise" that took five years to complete...