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...portraits of famous men and women - in a Gwyneth Paltrow gown, in a Groucho jacket fold. (Good thing they hadn't named the child Hildegarde.) Eventually he placed a numeral next to his signature - e.g., "Hirschfeld 5" - to indicate how often the Ninas appeared. Forty years before Martin Handford was playing "Where's Waldo?", Spotting the Ninas was the niftiest Sunday parlor game. I recall the little thrill I felt on first hearing of the ruse, back in college in the 60s, from our Music Appreciation teacher, who was also a staff member of the Times radio station WQXR...
...Almost an activity book as well, "Little Lit" volume two contains find-the-object pages by the likes of Martin Handford ("Where's Waldo") and Richard McGuire. My favorite is Louis Trondheim's "A-Maze-ing Adventure," about a little guy who gets lost. The panels are arranged like a maze, not only presenting the story as a reflection of its contents, but also, by choosing different paths, creating different narratives. Hey kids, comix theory...
...suggest that some oil and gas deposits are trapped within ancient cave systems that formed hundreds of millions of years ago. "So, about five years ago, some of us started looking in modern caves to see what they could tell us about where to hunt for oil," says Robert Handford, principal geologist at ARCO's research center in Plano, Texas. "It's been a truly eye- opening experience that has made us interpret some of the cores we bring up in a completely different manner." Because of the link between oil and caves, ARCO is starting to use remote-imaging...
...that are being turned into briskly readable, contemporary English by such able writers as Robert Graves (The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Lucan's Pharsalia), Rolfe Humphries (Ovid's Metamorphoses), Moses Hadas (An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus), Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald (Sophocles' Theban plays), Stanley Alexander Handford (Caesar's Gallic Wars...