Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yukon Ho!, a collection of 274 strips from late 1987 and early 1988, shows an artist still testing his limits. The strip's previous collections have been fixtures on The New York Times bestseller list, and Watterson's duo is at or near star status. Most readers are now familiar enough with the stuffed-tiger device that Watterson can approach it from some wonderful new angles...
...Holl does not compulsively reject history. His basic forms are familiar. He makes roofs that are variously hipped, pyramidal and barrel-vaulted. He is drawn to earthen materials -- stucco, concrete, sandblasted glass, stone -- and virtuoso artisanship. Holl is either a modern architect with recherche tastes or an old-fashioned architect with modern instincts...
...love came early, prompted by the sensations and surroundings of childhood. Visiting Shillington, Updike unexpectedly finds himself at loose ends for a couple of hours and wanders about through a soft spring drizzle, trying to recapture his past. He enters familiar ground: "The street, the house where I had lived, seemed blunt, modest in scale, simple; this deceptive simplicity composed their precious, mystical secret, the conviction of whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood...
...THEFT by Saul Bellow (Penguin; $6.95). The Nobel laureate offers an original novella in paperback, a vivid new fiction in which the familiar Bellow hero has become a heroine...
...paper. "When you fly on an airplane," he says in his thick Queens accent, "you don't know how the plane works. You fly on it because it's going to take you someplace." So far, however, the Post has been speeding Kalikow toward a destination all too familiar to his predecessors: debt city...