Word: inked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adkins. 64 pages. Walker. $5.95. A few years back, Jan Adkins drew and wrote a book called The Art and Industry ofSandcas-tles, which cleverly combined designs for toddlers on the beach with a short history of fortification for older brothers and parents. This time, with pen, ink and wash pictures and accompanying text, he has produced a handsome small primer on sailing that is also a model of brevity, clarity and simplicity. Starting with the Bernoulli effect (which explains how sailboats move to windward), the book ends with anchoring, having passed through everything from knots to points of sail...
...artist who grew up in Holland and migrated to the U.S. in 1952, is one of the finest creators of children's books alive. He researches historic subjects (The Erie Canal, London Bridge Is Falling Down) for months, then meticulously re-creates an era in delicate pen-and-ink with pale watercolor washes. This time, with his customary blend of beauty and utility (opposite page), Spier presents the 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry...
...David Macaulay. 80 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $6.95. This marvelous book recreates the building of a French Gothic cathedral, from the hewing down of half a forest to the placement of the last sheet of lead on the spire. Macaulay, a young architect, uses voluminous knowledge and pen-and-ink sketches, accompanied by a brief, clear narrative. He shows how to design and build a flying buttress, cast a bell in bronze, use the mortise-and-tenon method on the roof beams. By changing his viewpoint, he also powerfully conveys the immense rook-filled heights of the cathedral...
...Jemmy" Rivington might well sweat printers ink in the grave over such atrocities against the First Amendment as these...
...cast is splendid to a man, but perhaps special praise should be meted out to Joseph Maher as a backbiting, working-class cynic, to John Wardwell as a much put-upon boss who reads his balance sheet of life in red ink, to Reid Shelton as the stoic foreman once jailed for embezzlement, and to Kevin O'Connor as a sweetly compassionate, but unsentimentalized, stuttering imbecile...