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Drawing on materials at hand, doll-makers of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries fashioned humble toys from wood scraps, nuts, cornhusks, leather, even wishbones and wax. Wendy Lavitt has culled choice examples in American Folk Dolls (Knopf; 133 pages; $14.95 paperback) from museum and private collections, including her own. Among the finds: a simple cloth child in a beautifully detailed gown, the product of someone's exquisite needlework; an Indian doll caught between two cultures, dressed in buckskin, but with a nun's veil; Eskimos in sealskin, their curved ivory faces true to tribal doll convention...
...graduate education, the paucity of fellowships, and the unsteady job prospects, students are not rushing into Soviet studies. Slavic languages are not easy to learn, sources are often inaccessible, and the U.S.S.R. is unreceptive to U.S. scholars. Even after years of training, a Soviet specialist's job opportunities wax and wane with the climate of detente. The CIA today reports a shortage of Soviet experts, yet it let many go in the '70s. At Harvard's Russian Research Center, Director Adam Ulam is concerned about "the general dearth of specialists" as many of his senior faculty members...
Yasser Arafat can wax poetic about how much the P.L.O. loves peace. But his followers showed their real values in the bloody way they celebrated their "victory": by firing into the air, killing 17 people and wounding more than...
...that Actor Christopher Atkins, 21 (The Blue Lagoon), has reached that difficult age: no longer a teen crush but not yet an adult lead. He does have a new flick (The Pirate Movie), and following the well-trampled path of bubble-gum idols before him, he has cut some wax before he wanes: his first record, How Can I Live Without Her, is currently No. 89 on the charts. But there was still something missing, so his handlers suggested a take-it-off takeoff of the now famous Richard Avedon portrait of Natassia Kinski, 21, with a languorous python...
...thumbnail sketches to stupendously elaborate perspective studies that include notes on such minutiae as eight cross sections of an oar from loom to blade, or the reflection of a distant bush in a ripple of water. To get the muscles of horse and man right, he modeled them in wax...