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Drawing on materials at hand, doll-makers of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries fashioned humble toys from wood scraps, nuts, cornhusks, leather, even wishbones and wax. Wendy Lavitt has culled choice examples in American Folk Dolls (Knopf; 133 pages; $14.95 paperback) from museum and private collections, including her own. Among the finds: a simple cloth child in a beautifully detailed gown, the product of someone's exquisite needlework; an Indian doll caught between two cultures, dressed in buckskin, but with a nun's veil; Eskimos in sealskin, their curved ivory faces true to tribal doll convention...
With the help of a Madison Avenue lawyer named Murray Schwartz. Sliwa has written a book called Streetsmart: The Guardian Angel Guide to Safe Living The paperback has an eye-catching glossy cover photo of Sliwa and some Angels standing on a street in tough-guy poses usually found on the covers of heavy-metal rock albums or comic books. It underscores the way Sliwa has marketed himself and his ideas in a tasteless, often crass manner...
...Pittsburgh poet of zombie cannibalism, and Stephen King (Carrie, The Shining), the man who took horror out of the subconscious and put it back on America's supermarket shelves; one of the last of the true B movie filmmakers directing a screenplay by the foremost purveyor of mass paperback horror. Unfortunately, a potentially interesting juxtaposition fails. Romero's shock tactics end up being overwhelmed by King's schlock tactics, and the result, Creepshow, is certainly not worthy of the fetid--but rich--soil from which it sprang...
Opponents of economic sanctions argue that such measures have been ineffectual and often counterproductive in the past. Much evidence to support that view can be found in Economic Sanctions (Harvard University Center for International Affairs; $9.95 paperback), a timely new historical survey by British Diplomat Robin Renwick. The book dispassionately examines numerous episodes of economic warfare, including the League of Nations trade restrictions against Italy following its 1935 invasion of Ethiopia and the U.S. embargo of Cuba after Castro came to power in 1959. As a former head of the Rhodesia department of the British Foreign Office, Renwick brings particular...
...perennially promising young man of American letters is 50 and enjoying a very good year indeed. Spring kept him busy accepting awards. Rabbit Is Rich, his third look at an aging ex-jock in southeastern Pennsylvania, is now being issued in paperback after winning the literary Triple Crown: the Pulitzer Prize ("Critics have called the book a fulfillment of Updike's fabulous promise"), an American Book Award ("Let us celebrate the prestidigitator who tells today with passion and warning, and tricks it into language's jubilee") and a commendatory scroll from the National Book Critics Circle ("The novel...