Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Space Museum (Abrams; 504 pages; $50) should prove just as big an attraction on the coffee table. One reason this book works is its photography, done with knowledge and passion by Michael Freeman, Robert Golden and Dennis Rolfe, whether showing a venerable DC-3 as it makes its way through the heavy traffic suspended from the museum's raf ters, capturing the streamlined power of a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter or catching an earthrise on the moon...
...publication of Darwin's Origin of Species not only changed the way Victorians thought, it altered the way they saw. Animals became part of the great chain of being and illustrators freshened their efforts to give birds and mammals moral characteristics. Perhaps the best and, ironically, the most obscure was Ernest Griset, whose influence can be seen in the works of such disparate artists as Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, and the whole phalanx of present-day New Yorker cartoonists. In Ernest Griset by Lionel Lambourne (Thames & Hudson; 88 pages; $8.95), even hints of Miss Piggy...
...pages of the liberal Catholic journal The Critic. Here a prim stewardess warns a passenger, "You can't read erotic books while we're in Irish air space," and two dour leprechauns, spotting a leprechaun bishop under a toadstool, observe. "So much for our carefree, puckish way of life." Funny fauna inhabit Animals, Animals, Animals, edited by George Booth, Gahan Wilson and Ron Wolin (Harper & Row; 241 pages; $12.50), an old-fashioned chortler of a book. Next to a sign reading DO NOT FEED THE BEARS a smirking moose wears his own sign: I AM NOT A BEAR...
...hours with a stack of National Geographies. Director Carroll Ballard's adaptation of Walter Farley's boy-and-horse novel consists of one stunning view after another: coral seas, scarlet sunsets, moonlit landscapes, stormy skies. Almost every shot is suitable for framing, and Ballard prefers it that way. Whenever actors step into the frame, the director dismisses them quickly; he seems to feel that characters are intruders who come around only to mess up his pretty pictures...
...phrases like "pink-telephone" and "let's-go-marketing" to the surface, and they finally traced most of Ginny and Gracie's speech to English and minor German influences. One initial mystery, "toolaymeia" (for spaghetti), turned out to be a corruption of o sole mio, the family way of referring to Italian pasta. A scattering of words like "nunukid," "pulana" and "padeng" (possibly pudding) still remain perplexing...