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...LORD, I WISH I WAS A BUZZARD, by Polly Greenberg (Macmillan; $4.50). This matter-of-fact rendering of a day in the cotton fields is somewhat removed from the modern child's experiences. The illustrations in brown and orange by Aliki catch the polka-dot bleakness of the Southern landscape at cotton-picking time...
...express emotions." She asked them to choose an emotion. "Happiness," one of the boys suggested: so for a while they were happy, then thankful, then obsessed, then lonely, and then sad. "I can't seem to do this," said a tall boy in corduroy pants and a bright polka dot shirt. "There isn't enough space. I wish we were on a football field." The leader of the group tried to help him, while the others paired off to express themselves...
What can an artist do with a dot? A lot -if he is Larry Poons. His works are gigantic fields of solid color, spangled with hard-edged dots; when gazed at for any length of time, they seem to dance out and surround the viewer. They have served Poons very well indeed. His canvases have been snapped up, and his six one-man shows have all been sellouts, although his prices range up to $6,000. Still only 31, Poons has become a prodigy of the Manhattan art world, but he clearly has no intention of resting on his reputation...
Onto the screen flashes a shiny red dot, which turns out to be a maraschino cherry, which turns out to sit atop a chocolate sundae, which turns out to be the focal point for a swirling phantasmagoria of color. All of which, it also turns out, is a 60-second videotape commercial for a venerable Manhattan-based restaurant chain. "The chocolate sundae," proclaims a credit line that rolls diagonally across the TV tube, was "photographed for Schrafft's by Andy Warhol...
...million) in the past four years by completing a new, 140-mile railroad and by attracting such faraway customers as Japan, a major buyer of the kingdom's abundant iron ore. Beneath Swaziland's lush valleys and mountains are also gold, coal and asbestos. Cattle herds dot the sloping grassland, and citrus orchards and sugarcane fields flourish. Not the least of Swaziland's assets is the stabilizing unity of the Swazi tribe, to which all the new country's citizens belong except for some 10,000 white residents...