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The word carousel, Tobin Fraley informs us, is derived from the old Italian carosello, meaning tournament. The term came to refer to the medieval Moorish practice of training mounted swordsmen on wooden horses attached to circling beams. In The Carousel Animal (Zephyr; 127 pages; $19.95) Fraley, an Oakland, Calif, restorer...
No company is in a better position to profit from this spending surge than Sears, Roebuck. The giant retail chain and catalogue merchant, largest in the U.S., is on a hot streak. After a decade in which profits sagged and the 97-year-old company seemed to have lost its...
That Christmas spirit of spending was in the air as shoppers embarked on a robust post-Thanksgiving Day parade into stores. No longer held back by recession worries, consumers were buying presents that ranged from stocking stuffers to such big-ticket items as television sets and refrigerators. This season'...
Unfortunately, Walter LaFeber's Inevitable Revolutions does little to relieve this sense of anguish. Barraging the reader with too many unimportant names and dates, the book describes two centuries of U.S. involvement in Central America with the depth of a high school textbook. Although LaFeber outlines and criticizes the major...
Even after she realizes that she can transcend mere Bunnyhood and become an actress, Dorothy begs Paul to take her back to Vancouver. But Snider tells her "we can't go back," and Fosse would surely agree that the girl from next door can't go home again, because he...