Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both DiGiovanni and Herald declined to release the names of the firms that plan to occupy the building, but employees at the Harvard Book Store said their textbook, used paperback and law book branches will relocate to the new complex...
...Whose new paperback, Where to Eat in America (Random House; $5.95), is the most valuable coast-to-coast gustatory guide ever published in this country...
...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...
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...