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...Harper & Row; 277pages...
...Unraveling of America. A History of Liberalism in the 1960s By Allen Matusow $42 pages, $22.95, Harper...
...because he stood so straight. Major Taylor had two other attributes worth noting: he was the world's fastest bicycle rider, and he was black. The story is the stuff of juvenile fiction, but every word of it is true, and it is truly narrated in Bicycle Rider (Harper & Row; $9.95). Abetted by Ed Young's exuberant illustrations, Author Mary Scioscia raises Taylor from obscurity to role model. Her descriptions of turn-of-the-century black life in rural America never moralize; perhaps that, even more than the headlong pace, accounts for the most emotionally satisfying cyclist...
...subject of a one-man show at the Met: the Spanish designer Cristobal Balenciaga, in 1973.) The choice was made by the museum's director and by the Costume Institute's special consultant, Diana Vreeland, whose judgment it reflects. Says the legendary former editor of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, with the certitude and gusto that she has retained into her eighth decade: "Saint Laurent has been built into the history of fashion now for a long time. Twenty-six years is the proof that he can please most of the people most of the time four...
...like to direct my subjects and tell them exactly what to do," says Antony Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon, in his introduction to Sittings 1979-1983 (Harper & Row; 144 pages; $20). That would account for the cool air of calculated informality that distinguishes these photographs, mostly of figures in the arts and public life of Britain. But Snowdon adds: "Often when people are told exactly what to do they become more themselves than they know." And that would explain the glint of pawky self-dramatization in many of the poses: Prince Charles sporting his riding silks with 18th century...