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...edited and designed by Chip Kidd, " The Art of Charles M. Schulz" ($29.95; Pantheon Books; 336 pp.) goes way beyond another collection of "Peanuts" strips. The title really means what it says, presenting Schulz' work as a fine-art monograph might. The pages are slick and in full color, even for black and white strips, bringing out a texture and clarity of line you never get with standard reproductions. Source materials vary from original art with the (rare) corrections clearly visible, to yellowing clips of the newspapers they appeared...
...certainly deserves as fine a book as "Peanuts: The Art of Charles Schulz." Kidd has done a wonderful job of presenting this important artist's work in a prestige format. Even non-"Peanuts" fans can marvel at the dazzling layouts and attention to detail. Books like this elevate not just the subject but the medium as a whole. Oh yeah, and it's pretty funny...
...running mate, Luke R. Long ’03, received a four-point fine and the other vice presidential candidate, Anne M. Fernandez ’03, lost two points...
...Among its finds was a trunk covered in carved ivory. Photos of it in the Guimet Museum show reliefs of naked, large-breasted women. Their beauty must have blurred the aim of the Taliban soldiers who smashed the trunk when they emptied the Kabul museum because they left several fine fragments of ivory intact. These were rescued in 1997, deposited in the Guimet, and are now part of this exhibition...
...abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing eye of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which had cast its gigantic fine-meshed net over the whole of China...