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...Anno's Alphabet (Crowell; $6.95), Artist Mitsumasa Anno exhibits a gifted mind as well as hand. Twenty-six illustrations mount ingenious optical illusions in the shape of letters (see story head above-? 1974 by Fukuinkan-Sho-ten);on the opposite pages are objects beginning with those letters. With scrupulous detail Anno simultaneously dazzles, entertains and instructs in the best alphabet book of the year...
...Emperors, seated in their ceremonial robes like weighty butterflies. There is an exquisite passage from the Tale of Genji copied out on silver-dusted paper by the great 17th century calligrapher Konoe Nobutada. The screens include two designs of drying fish nets, probably by Kaihō Yūsho (1533-1615)-resplendent documents of the moment when Japanese painting, having absorbed its Chinese influences, became fully Japanese...
...still one of the best cartoonists, is a more solid expert on the genre. "A comic strip is like a dream," Turtle tells Bear in Pogo. "A tissue of paper reveries. It gloms an' glimmers its way thru unreality, fancy an' fantasy." To which Bear naturally responds: "Sho' 'nuff?" Sho' 'nuff. · Gerald Clarke
...three and four. Penn sho?? a s??t favorite because of t?? son performances of Mason ?? Jeff Condon. But Fernanio ?? Ed Atwood both triumphed?? over Gerhart and Condon ?? and the Crimson must hope ?? these upset performances...
...rare) conviction that contemporary opera deserves a place right alongside the old favorites. The Devils is a highly unorthodox piece of music. At earlier performances this summer in Hamburg and Stuttgart, it had been greeted with as many pans as praises (TIME, July 4). Santa Fe once more was sho ing its devil-may-care spirit in risking, along with the tried-and-true, the tried-and-booed...