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  • Seller image for Smithsonian Magazine November 1990 Volume 21 Number 8 for sale by Argyl Houser, Bookseller

    No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Completely clean inside and out. Some wear to edges of covers and spine. The magazine will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Hard Times on the American Frontier" (In Nebraska's Sand Hills, wind pumps the water, cows chop the wood--and people are few and far between) by Donald Duke Jackson with photographs by Gail Mooney; "How Evelyn Cameron Captured the Plains" (Her quarry was eastern Montana, 1894-1928: her weapon a camera, and her trophy, a stunning pictorial record); "Titian: Art's Venetian Lion" (A bravura exhibition comes to the National Gallery to mark the quincentenary of the master painter's birth) by Bennett Schiff; "Micromachines--They're not to Be Sneered At" (The future is big for tiny devices with microscopic parts that already measure blood pressure and save gas) by Doug Stewart with photographs by Peter Menzel; "Telling Tales Out of School" (On the coral reef, fishes sport eye-popping color combinations that get the word out to friend and foe) by Joseph S. Levine with photographs by Jeffrey L. Rotman; "Watch Your Language, Cautioned H. W. Fowler" (For almost a century, the gentle lexicographer has steered scribblers through the shoals of English usage) by Israel Shenker with illustrations by John Huehnergarth; "India's Gamble on the Holy Narmada" (Debate rages as massive dams to harness the river's resources destroy forests, temples and homelands) by Mark Fineman with photographs by David Beatty; "It's High-Low Time at New York's MOMA" ('High' modernism meets the 'low' arts of advertising caricature, comics and graffiti in a lively new show) by Phil Patton; "George Bernard Shaw, In Love and Out" (At age 65, the dramatist fell for a young American vamp whom he would adore and revile, but never forget) by Arline B. Tehan; "Penicillin and a Revolution in World Health" (In the early 1940s, bacterial illnesses were a leading cause of death, then the first wonder drug was tried) by Edwin Kiester, Jr.; plus "Book Reviews"; "Picture Credits"; "Additional Reading"; "November Events at the Smithsonian"; "Smithsonian Tours, Seminars and Expeditions" and "I'm All Suited Up, and A Fireman for Life" by Bailey White.