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Damascus Nights By Rafik Schami Ferrar, Straus and Giroux...
Federated Department Stores (which owns Bloomingdale's, Abraham & Straus and , Burdines) bought a major interest in R.H. Macy & Co. (which owns Macy's, Bullock's and I. Magnin) in an attempt to create a department-store chain that would be the nation's largest. For $450 million, Federated purchased half of the Macy secured loans owned by the Prudential Insurance Co. with an option to buy the remaining half. Macy is in bankruptcy, and Federated hopes to convert the debt holdings into control of Macy by crafting a yet undisclosed reorganization plan. Macy is cool to the idea, and other...
...Secret Room, by Uri Shulevitz (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $15). Once upon one more time, we have the slightly dippy king who craves the answer to a riddle ("Why is your head gray and your beard black?"), the humble but clever man who provides it and the nasty court counselor who is jealous. Humility prevails and spin-doctoring fails, as invariably happens in stories. The author's angular tempera illustrations are vivid and funny -- the camel on which the king perches is an unusually thoughtful and sardonic beast -- but the somewhat preachy story doesn't add much...
Wreaths with red ribbons rest upon each lamppost in the Square along Massachusetts Avenue and JFK Street. The city has also put up light displays above Mass. Ave. in front of the Harvard Book Store and next to Straus Hall...
Organized by Susan Dackerman, a Lynn and Philip Straus Intern at the Fogg, "Chaste, Chased and Chastened" is unusual for its thematic organization. Through her graduate research of Rennasaince prints, Dackerman discovered a surprising increase in prints depicting Old Testament stories. Once Dackerman realized that this Old Testament emphasis coincided with the Protestant Reformation's destruction of Catholic art, she had the makings of an interesting historical exhibit...