Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Primary and secondary colors go first class in Who Said Red? (McElderry Books; $12.95). Mary Serfozo's lively text quotes a sister teasing her kid brother: "Now who said blue? Could it be you? A blue sky blue, a blue eye blue, a bow, a ball, a blue jean blue?" Or perhaps he wants "slicker yellow, sunshine yellow, lemonade and daisy yellow." But no; despite the additional temptations of purple, brown, pink and orange, the boy hews to one hue: "A cherry, berry, very red." And who can blame him? Keiko Narahashi shows a rainbow of appealing items...
Fighting back tears, the former editor of children's books recalled how Steinberg had first wooed her by promising to teach her about life. The lessons, she testified, soon turned to assaults so severe that she lost her spleen, several teeth and partial hearing in one ear. Her eye was damaged, her nose broken, and one knee hobbled. Six times, Nussbaum claimed, she tried to run away, but she always returned. She had become convinced she "could not survive without him." After one pummeling in 1984, she fled to a shelter for battered women and was sent to Bellevue Hospital...
Chandler's most immortal creation -- co-produced by Humphrey Bogart -- was the quixotic figure of the gumshoe, Philip Marlowe, private eye and public conscience, sitting behind his pebbled-glass door with an office bottle and a solitary game of chess. What made Marlowe special was simply the fact that he was nothing special, no genius like Sherlock Holmes, no Connoisseur model like James Bond. Just an underpaid drudge with, as one mobster says, "no dough, no family, no prospects, no nothing" -- except a habit of making other people's worries his own, and a gift for walking in on corpses...
...figure drawings nothing is sentimental or overwrought. Naked or dressed, their model -- commonly his wife Phyllis -- inscribes herself on one's view without ceremony. Her poses seem fallen into, not directed, as natural and unaffected as could be. But what holds one's eye is the resolution Diebenkorn finds in the architecture of the body: the way a transverse arm cuts across the gourdlike shape of hips, the thrust of a shin redefining the space around it, the clear slicing of light into dark and profile into void. Diebenkorn's line learned its decisiveness in front of the model...
...checkerboard of action and reaction, stability is often in the eye of the beholder. Albert Carnesale, a widely respected nuclear strategist, wryly observes that "weapons are destabilizing only if they are your adversary's." The difference between an offensive first-strike weapon and one useful just for defensive retaliation "lies in intent only," says Carnesale. Yet often weapons are introduced largely because the technology is available, rather than to meet essential strategic requirements. As George Bush considers how to proceed with SDI, Stealth and the START talks, the standard he must apply is the quest for stability...