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GIRLHOOD EMBROIDERY: AMERICAN SAMPLERS AND PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK, 1650-1850, by Betty Ring (Knopf; $125). For centuries regarded as examples of women's household craft, antique samplers now hang in museums and are coveted by collectors. This scholarly two-volume work explores the origins of needlework and its importance in a girl's education. Illustrating the text are samplers stitched by girls between the ages of six and 18. Here is yesterday's homework transformed into today...
This is definitely not your father's General Motors. Hoglund, Wagoner, Losh, Battenberg and Mueller may not exactly be household names in the U.S., but in Detroit they are instantly recognized as belonging to some of the most powerful men in the industry. They are among the 15 members of CEO Jack Smith's North American strategy board, which runs all of GM's U.S. operations...
...begin with the young Ludwig (Clancy Chassay), an impudent, clever boy in a strange toga, who introduces us to his family: a rich, overly-educated Viennese household. It is the boy who narrates this film of his life, accompanied by a green fuzzy Martian (Nabil Shaban) who insists on engaging the precocious child in philosophical discussion. Together they travel to England and we watch Ludwig's intellectual development from an imaginative, over-stimulated youth into a sober, work-obsessed pupil of Bertrand Russell (Micheal Gough) and an awkward frequenter of the oh-so-intellectually fashionable Bloomsbury crowd, including the lovely...
...frightened Chinese trying to enter the country illegally; 10 die. Newly elected President Bill Clinton, reneging on a campaign promise, denies entry to Haitian boat people, then is blindsided by hostile public reaction when his first two choices for Attorney General turn out to have hired illegal immigrants as household help. When Texas border patrols mount a round-the-clock blockade along 20 miles of the Rio Grande, hundreds of Mexicans, many of whom commute illegally to day jobs in El Paso, angrily block traffic on a bridge between the U.S. and Mexico, chanting, "We want to work...
Cuban-born Estefan, with her dance-floor blend of R. and B. and Cuban polyrhythms, has established herself as the queen of the new Latin sound. Arriving in Miami from Havana when she was two years old, she grew up in a household immersed in traditional Cuban ballads. By the first grade, she was also listening to British-invasion bands. "It was natural to blend both elements," says Estefan. "When immigrants come to America they bring their culture, and that culture becomes part of a new country. It makes everyone stronger...