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This year two books need no color to make them models of superlative craftsmanship and originality. In My Village, Sturbridge (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95), Gary Bowen invents a character, True Mason, and walks him through a 19th century New England village. Bowen's style is lean and precise. But it is his and Randy Miller's brilliantly detailed wood engravings that grant My Village the aura of a rare antique rescued from some forgotten attic. David Macaulay has won an international reputation without being able to draw believable people. What he can draw-churches, cities, pyramids-he does...
Caveat emptor: miracles occur in only a few books each season. And when they do, it is usually the givers who are astonished, not the recipients. This Christmas, as in the past, Ogden Nash's words will still ring true...
When CBS News Producer Barry Lando interviewed Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert for a 1971 report on prisoners of war in South Viet Nam, he found the soldier too good to be true: a gung-ho, ribbon-covered lifer who was being quietly drummed out of the Army for uncovering U.S. war crimes. CBS broadcast Lando's report of Herbert's plight, and Herbert later became a talk-show hero among foes of the war; his 1973 autobiography, Soldier, hit the bestseller lists...
...follow-up story, Lando began checking into Herbert's career and his charges against the Army, and concluded that the colonel was indeed too good to be true. In a half-hour 60 Minutes segment in 1973, Lando and Correspondent Mike Wallace challenged a number of Herbert's allegations, and interviewed fellow officers unable to substantiate them Herbert sued Lando, Wallace and CBS for libel, demanding that Lando answer questions about his state of mind when he prepared the program. Lando balked, and in January a judge ordered him to comply...
...ALISON," as in "I'm Not Angry" and throughout My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello anticipates our reactions and responds by ringing changes on them. Comparisons are inevitable--to Presley, from whom he took his name; to Springsteen, and Mick Jagger, and Graham Parker, like all of whom he sounds; to the r&b revivalists, of whom he is certainly one; to the punks, of whom he is not. The comparisons will be made, but they will be unfair. They'll be easy handles for people who will be scared away by outward appearances and won't recognize this album...