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...foreign policy. Their guidebook: a Bible deemed to be error-proof. Their weapons: dynamic leaders like Jerry Falwell, TV, hard cash and a friend in the White House. See RELIGION...
...Stirling is adding what a Cambridge, Mass., guidebook calls "another strange beast" to this menagerie. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum, to open in October, combines the bold orange and gray stripes of Memorial Hall with the proportions of Andrews' design school. But the Sackler's most startling feature is its aggressive mixture of historic motifs with raw industrialism. The slant-sided, flat-roofed entrance jutting into the street vaguely resembles the Lion Gate at Mycenae, but it is built of glass and metal and ! guarded by exhaust pipes with garishly painted air vents. Comments Harvard Graduate Student Michael Cornfield...
...Angeles, a top-down kind of town, must begin with the same action: cranking an automobile. "How can one pursue happiness by any swifter or surer means," the Los Angeles Times asked in 1926, "than by the use of the automobile?" This year the paper advised in an Olympics guidebook that "the car's the thing, and if you have one or have rented one, be sure to become familiar with Los Angeles streets and freeways. (This is the key to 'happy' motoring in and around the large basin...
...Klee's paintings had a shorthand that described action, feeling, color, mood. They were not about painting but communication and visual literacy." The overall technique could be a model for future encyclopedias. In Hawaii Access, for example, there are entries on surfing and shells that are definitive in guidebook terms. San Francisco Access includes such regional lore as the mechanics of the cable car and the winemaking process...
...Williams (who opened the season, and lost, for the Twins last week) is the only known former Sandinista guerrilla in the major leagues. Back in 1977, when the Nicaraguan-born athlete was in the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system, the Somoza government declined to renew his visa. As a Twins guidebook laconically puts it, "This prompted Al to sign up with the Sandinista National Liberation Front guerrillas, and he was engaged in jungle fighting against the forces of Anastasio Somoza for the next 16 months." Williams confirms it all but politely declines to talk about those days...