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Usually, the latter matters far more. Rarely will a reader reject the words of the Iliad or War and Peace because of an ugly cover, and rarely will an even remotely judicious reader buy a book based solely on pretty cover art. In this show, even when the books do have content, the “reader’s” attention is inexorably drawn towards the visual aspects of the presentation—a tendency of which the artists seem fully aware, and even to embrace. McCarthy, for instance, says in her artist’s statement that...
...take the revolutionary tone of the book seriously. The fantasy lives of young girls may be “secret” in that the girls did not discuss them before they were interviewed for Lamb’s book, but it is hardly shocking to the modern reader that young girls masturbate or are curious about boys’ bodies. Lamb seems occasionally to assume that the feelings of repression voiced by the older women she interviewed are also applicable to the younger generation. As a result, she fails to convince her readers that the social norms that...
...wine cellar protected by a two-ton door, and (further west on 52nd) Toots Shor, the favorite of sportsmen and serious drinkers like Jackie Gleason. Naturally, America needed arbiters to decide which of these people with too much money and way too much free time were worth the reader's notice. That was the job of the gossip columnists: Ed Sullivan, Dorothy Kilgallen and, first and last, Walter Winchell...
...Some of you felt the Russians got shafted by ugly photographs. "I am disgusted by the blatant partisanship evidenced in your photos of the Russian figure skaters," declared a New Yorker. "You must have searched high and low for the least flattering pictures you could find." A Vancouver, B.C., reader shared the sentiment. "Surely, out of the hundreds of shots available, you could have published a more complimentary one of Anton Sikharulidze. Shame on you!" The cover portrait of the Canadians, however, got a round of applause. A San Franciscan called it "a real standout. It makes you want...
...alert the reader to these facts not to “scare” readers who support reproductive rights. Indeed, one of the problems with the abortion debate as it is currently framed is that both sides use rhetoric designed not to reach a middle ground, but to draw their own adherents to further extremes. Thus anti-abortionists use phrases like “baby-killers” while pro-choice activists dub anyone opposed to abortion a “right-wing religious nut.” Even without this irresponsible rhetoric, it is most likely impossible to have...