Word: scrapbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White Album. By Joan Didion. (Simon and Schuster, $9.95): Written in Didion's usual cogent, vivid prose, this scrapbook of 1960s Americana is punctuated with insightful social commentary. But her series of epiphanies don't quite add up to the hoped-for unified masterpiece...
Scientists mull over a colorful scrapbook from Mars...
...Arthur Goodfriend, currently an Education School student, life is a series of images and impressions that fly by all too quickly, So at age 15 he decided to keep a diary--but not an ordinary one. A "graphic narrative" is what he calls it--a scrapbook, journal, memory book and sketchpad pasted one on top of another and rolled into a unique whole. He's been keeping them ever since that time nearly 50 years...
...Manual is an anti-novel without a definable plot. Interspersed between chapters without numbers and of varying lengths, are news-clippings about the torture of Latin American revolutionaries and their terrorist endeavors. Cortazar builds the entire book around these visually super-imposed articles, which are being compiled for a scrapbook for Manuel, the child of a Screwery member. The collection serves as a guide to the beliefs of Manuel's parents...
Free, Adult, Uncensored recounts the story of one of these projects, the Federal Theatre Project. John O'Connor and Lorraine Brown have put together a kind of family scrapbook, a montage of the Theatre Project. They have recovered and included long-forgotten Project "documents"--posters, picture and the like--as well as reminiscences by Theatre Project veterans. The book is loosely organized--a brief historical essay followed by some dozen and a half sections on individual productions. An intimate, insider's "feel" for the Project emerges, a feel for its diversity and its creativity, its struggles and its trials...