Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lesser hands, it might have been called gimmick literature. But there is a high purpose behind Look! Look! Look! (Greenwillow; $12.95). Regularly, a small window is cut out of a page. Peering through it, readers may see the crown on the Statue of Liberty, or the side of a briefcase or a mysterious red eye. The pages that follow reveal the whole photograph and provide some astonishments. The eye turns out to be rose petals. The briefcase is an elephant's tail. The crown is the center of a carousel wheel. Tana Hoban's pictures tell a double story...
Another fault of the book is its emphasis on the game story. Whereas Feinstein's interviews and anecdotes give the book its unique color and life, the game stories slow down the reader's pace. The reader is no longer reading a book, but a 464-page story on how Perdue managed to sneak one past Indiana...
...decision is the nation's first to link residential and school segregation, and blame city government for both. Yet, instead of solving the problem, the 600-page decision in the Yonkers case actually fueled the controversy...
...government newspaper Izvestia, in a front-page article from New York yesterday, said the U.S. administration was preparing intensively for the meeting with Gorbachev. "There is a basis to suppose that the administration will not only listen but propose something in return," the paper said...
...people: too dumb to see through the smoke, too emotional to resist the "hot-button" ads. As one disgusted commentator put it (on this page), "The voters are idiots...