Word: moring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas Monetti, Waldorf-Astoria catering executive: "People eat more mousse in crisis situations. Maybe it's easier to spoon up than pie or cake."
From their printing shop in Lower Manhattan, Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives taught 19th century America to see itself. Their lithographs re-created urban and rural growth, disasters, the opening of the West and a vast anthology of occupations and pastimes. The Great Book of Currier & Ives' America...
The Broadway musical is a kinetic compound of electrically charged energy, precision team work, spectacular razzle-dazzle, and the visceral urge to make that golden killing. Drama Critic Martin Gottfried astutely captures all of that and more in Broadway Musicals (Abrams; 353 pages; $45). After nearly 20 years on the...
Two new books show why Gail Levin's Edward Hopper as Illustrator (Norton/ The Whitney Museum of American Art; 288 pages; $24.95) brings together the dramatic paintings and drawings Hopper executed for the covers of such publications as Tavern Topics and Hotel Management, as well as the illustrations he...
Humor, James Thurber observed, "is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." That at least seems to be the governing philosophy behind many of the cartoons in this year's collections. The best in this vein is Gahan Wilson's gently crafted Nuts (Marek; unpaginated; $4.95), chronicles of growing up...