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...text and pictures in Daddy's Roommate may give off a warm glow, but glowing books can light fuses. The book is on the recommended reading list of a new first-grade curriculum in New York City -- sort of a gay companion to Jack and Jill. And that has led to a bitter fight about when and how to teach children about homosexuality, a question that schools all around the country have begun -- very cautiously -- to confront...
...Umberto Baldini and Ornella Casazza (Abrams; $125). Now, after years of dedicated labor, the frescoes in the Florentine chapel look as they did in the Renaissance. The biblical figures painted by Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino Lippi glow anew in this testament to religious faith, artistic genius and scientific restoration...
...minute piece opens with the seven women in the slinky velveteen dresses of costume designer Frances Kenny. With the help of Alexander Heddinger's eerie lighting, the women's bodies seem to glow from within. They glide solemnly across the stage, occasionally sinking to the floor or collapsing into one another's arms. Sometimes they pause in a dreamy tableaux, their arms reaching toward the heavens. At times, however, the religious motif becomes too heavy-handed, as when six women lift the seventh into a distinct crucifixion pose and walk reverently in a circle with her body...
ONLY 20 MONTHS AGO, GEORGE BUSH was basking in the glow of the Gulf War victory and enjoying the highest approval ratings ever recorded. That he might even stand a chance of losing the presidency seemed improbable; that he might lose to the young (just 44 at the time), virtually unknown Governor of one of the smallest and poorest states in the nation -- well, nobody would have believed it. Yet as the campaign moved into its final week, despite some tightening of the polls, that was precisely what seemed likely to happen...
...Three Mile Island, which had come to a near meltdown a little over a year before the election, convinced me that we didn't want anyone who understood nuclear power in the White House--they wouldn't be afraid of it. Even a year later, we were telling "glow in the dark" jokes. (Some mothers "wore combat boots" in childhood epithets. In our jibes, mothers "fished for three-headed trout in the Susquehanna for dinner...