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PAGE 28 it Journey of AnEvicted Tenant "The best nove Dorothy Eden has written yet." THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER The bestselling author of Speak to Me of Love, Melbury Square and The Vines of Yarrabee has written her first book, with an American heroine. $8.95 COWARD, McCAHN CEOCHECAN NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Barbara A. Bannon, Publishers Weekly A -A 1 i fcv- 'ri i )i ft I 'He winds up singing on a beach in Santa Monica' ART CARNEY AND TONTO' The book that tells you what's wrong with the food you're buying Nikki and David Goldbeck's slashing expose of how the food we eat is destroying our lives. "The biggest and best part is devoted to an aisle-by-aisle shopping tour through a It's a fundamental food education, fascinating and horrifying. mention exemplary brands by name." Wa Street Journal.

"Supplies and prices being what they are, we've got to do better. A good way to start is to take a look at this K. Smith, ABC-TV With recipes, charts, illustrations, $7,95 at bookstores. 1 1 rv HARRY AND TONTO. Bj Josh Greenfield and Paul Mazursky.

Saturday Review Press; 183 $5.95. Reviewed by Michael Larsen THIS IS a comedy-drama written with insight and humor. It portrays how a variety of people try to cope with being alive in the 70's. A screenplay-turned-novel, it is structured as a series of scenes separated by -inch-es of white space, and one reads it unable to resist imagining the cuts and dissolves between each scene. (It is scheduled to be a major motion picture starring Art Carney.) As a slice of contemporary American life, the story's wit and humanity will be a refreshing relief from some of the excesses movie-goers are currently being subjected to.

fate includes seeing an old flame getting stranded when the Greyhound bus Harry is riding stops so Tonto can lighten his bladder; and rising to the occasion when he is seduced (on a cash basis) by a prostitute who gives him a lift to Las Vegas. He winds up singing on a beach in Santa Monica as he helps a little girl build a sand castle. As a book "Harry and Tonto" remains a screenplay bulked up with additional prose. If the people are well drawn, they lack the resonance of fully realized characters. With its constantly changing scenes and characters, the plot seems designed for an audience accustomed to viewing television's chain of rapid-fire images.

These are faults which suggest more the difference between movies and books rather than the abilities of Messrs. Greenfield and Mazursky. Lt opens with Harry Combes, a retired English professor and widower who lives with his cat Tonto, about to be evicted by urban renewal from his large old apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The last tenant in the building, Harry holds out against the future until two policemen carry him out perched in his rocker, defiantly bellowing a' scene from "King Lear." This scene proves to be a portent of the unhappy change that Harry finds people are heir to. He visits his three grown children in a New York suburb, Chicago, and Los Angeles hoping to find a new way of life.

For different reasons, none of his children can provide Harry with a home. But Harry is a stub-fa resilient, good-humored, compassionate man wise enough to accept his fate as he discovers it. On his journey west, his IfLiHarperetRow LLJ 10 Meir Yvk I00Z "KSISOD, 1817 THE TORRID, TEMPESTUOUS NOVEL OF VIOLENT PASSION AND THE BIG HIT Furniture From Old Boxes i BY ARTHUR MOORE AND CLAYTON MATTHEWS $1.50 POCKET POCKET BOOKS i THE BOX BOOK. The World's Cheapest Way To Build Written Illustrated by Diane Cleaver. David McKay; 114 $4.95 cloth, $2.95 paper.

Reviewed by Elizabeth Pomada WHAT'S better than Cost Plus or Bus Van for inexpensive furniture? A hammer and nails, imagination and boxes. Diane Cleaver, a top science fiction editor, can certainly afford furniture, as could probably most of the readers of this engaging "how-to." But nowadays we move too frequently. And even if we don't like to think that, we could be "out and packed" and on to a new life in 24 hours or less. Possessions such as huge expensive couches and dining room sets can weigh you down. Now if the couch, chairs, tables and bookcases are made of boxes, boxes you can pick up on the street corner for free, then you don't mind leaving them behind.

Or you can do what the writer has done for her 15 moves in the last nine years you can reassemble the boxes, use them to pack your belongings in, and bring them along. Orange crates with slats, sturdy milk crates, small, perfect-for-spices plum boxes, tea chests, and grape, wine and Chinese boxes are waiting for you. If you don't like the idea of looking on street corners, you can ask liquor and furniture store managers for them. Most of the time stores are happy to get rid of them. Will all your furniture look like old boxes? Not if you follow the author's clear illustrations and instructions.

Even if you've never built anything before you can make exotic chairs, useful desks and Louise Nevelson-like wall units and bookcases. Pithy quotes before each chapter do provide inspiration like this one from Robinson Crusoe: "I have never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time, by labour, application and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it." Sunday Examiner Chronicle Teilhard dc Cltardiii Hindu traditions. EVOLUTION TOWARD DIVINITY by BEATRICE BRUTEAU The eminent Jesuit philosopher gave new Impetus to the transformation of Western religious thought Now Dr. Bruteau presents a long-awaited comparison of Telihard's views with those of Hindu thought. She points out many strong correspondences, providing a much-needed bridge linking 20th-century Christianity with the ancient Hindu traditions.

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