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...edited and designed by Chip Kidd, " The Art of Charles M. Schulz" ($29.95; Pantheon Books; 336 pp.) goes way beyond another collection of "Peanuts" strips. The title really means what it says, presenting Schulz' work as a fine-art monograph might. The pages are slick and in full color, even for black and white strips, bringing out a texture and clarity of line you never get with standard reproductions. Source materials vary from original art with the (rare) corrections clearly visible, to yellowing clips of the newspapers they appeared...
...first I was skeptical about the not-quite-deli, not-quite-coffee bar that moved in to replace The Cottonwood Cafe, a TexMex, blue cheese salad sensation. But I quickly found that a fabulous French deity has descended to grace the pantheon of restaurants situated on Massachusetts Avenue in Porter Square...
Five years ago, I probably would have wept at the very thought of conversing with that goddess of the teenage girl’s pantheon...
Some said it was a hover scooter, others claimed it was a super-efficient engine capable of revolutionizing urban transportation. Only an elite circle of America’s technology pantheon was let in on the secret. Apple Computers founder Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that Ginger is so remarkable, cities will be built around...
...February, Pantheon will publish "Nigger: A Problem in American Culture" by Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School and an occasional TIME contributor. According to the publisher, "It is perhaps the most consequential social insult in American history and, at the same time, a word that reminds us of ?the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience. Now, Randall Kennedy ?puts a tracer on nigger,? in order to identify its use and analyze the controversies to which it has given rise. With unprecedented candor and insight he explores such questions as: How should ?nigger? be defined...