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...Rings plunging through pianos, airborne castles, flaming keys and animated bottles are all part of the artist's whimsical, gravity-free universe. Magritte: Ideas and Images by Harry Torczyner (Abrams; 277 pages; $45) provides an opulent but ambiguous visual festival. The artist, half magician, half charlatan, paints with paperback Freud insights and melodramatic compositions so calculating that he sometimes makes Norman Rockwell appear primitive. Yet in the midst of a darkened landscape, Magritte can mysteriously illuminate the sky: on an ominous day he makes it rain identical men in bowler hats, as impassive and relentless as Kafka...
...editor, Stanley Greenfield, 52, director of the magazine-acquisition and development group at CBS, says it would take 2,000 phone books and other directories to supply all the data that he and three full-time staffers took 1½ years to distill into one volume. Indeed, the paperback book-printed in virulent green-lists 10,034 corporations with sales over $10 million, every department of every state, county and city government in the U.S., plus more federal offices, than any other book...
...Second Whole Kids Catalog (Bantam; $7.50), by Peter Cardozo, belongs on any whole kid's bookshelf. No matter what his or her interest-or obsession-this fat paperback has an entry to satisfy it. Like the first Whole Kids Catalog (1975), its encore lists scores of free items that children can send away for-posters, coloring books, even games. Is the child a budding conjuror? Self-Working Card Tricks are only a postage stamp (plus $1.50) away, as well as membership in the Young Magicians Club. Kids into cartoons and photography can study film animation, make paper movie machines...
Richard Scarry should get an award for everything but his titles. His Best Make-It Book Ever! (Random House; $4.95) is nothing of the kind; it is merely the best of the year. Like his other amuse-yourself books, this fine, inventive paperback shows young readers hundreds of ways to brighten a rainy day or beguile the hours between Sesame Street and supper. This is a cut-and-paste book for all seasons: there are valentines to make, Halloween masks to wear, even Christmas decorations to festoon the tree-including a Santa Claus bird and a mouse on ice skates...
...conflict than his new novel, The Immigrants. It is the first book in a projected trilogy that will follow a number of families from 1888 into the present. Universal already plans to film the saga as a 36-part TV series, for which Fast should gross $975,000. The paperback rights have been sold...