European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 08, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Best Sellers ave you Ever seen somebody staring transfixed wearing a look somewhere Between beatific and moronic at a Book of pictures that look like visual gibberish to you if so you be encountered the magic Eye Book phenomenon. J _ it was a topic on a recent Seinfeld to segment so you know it s hip. ? the original magic Eye books Aren t really books in the classic sense they Are pages of visual expert Encis contained Between Book covers f magic Eye is a 3-d Holographic process born of High tech and computer Art. Its creators Call it deep after you gaze awhile at a magic Eye image the Flat surface opens into three dimensions and a hidden 3-d picture emerges. It through a invisible Barrier Imo a magic world beyond y the books have become Best Sellers. Magic Eye i r visions a new dimension in Art by . Thing enterprises Andrews and Mcmeel is the latest. Magic Eye i and ii preceded it. In All More than 2million copies of magic Eye books have been sold the publisher says. Once you get How to see the hidden image. Magic Eye is mesmerizing. But it takes a bit of practice and until you get it it s frustrating. What it takes is an altered focus of the Eye. And what people usually try first focusing intently As if they could find Waldo hiding does t get it. If anything it is an opposite process a relaxation of focus fuzzy like a seeing beyond. The Best Way to Start described in the books is this hold the image right in front of your eyes. Actually touching your nose and move it slowly away from you. At some Point As your eyes change focus the image should appear in 3-d. Don t give up if you Don t get it the first time it takes practice and patience. Once you get it though it s like Riding a Bike you can do it latest magic Eye Book contains 32 pages each with a separate color picture. -. The books have been translated into 19 languages and sold worldwide. And now other publishers Are turning out books using the technique. Here Are some new 3-d books death at sea a murder mystery in 3-d by _ Len Oszustowicz illustrated by Brian Small sum " Mil weaves a tale of murder at sea the wealthy Millicent Prestwood is found dead in her berth and help Arlington Bowles of Scotland Yard investigates with magic Eye images that reveal clues to the whodunit v a Beautiful example of the Art form married to a Story is Henry s gift the magic Eye written by David Worsick with illustrations by Joyce Harris 3 d images by Bohdan pet Hyrycz or. Am. It s a kind of fairy tale about Henry adopted son of the Baron of Veldran who sees visions magic Eye that deter mine the future of the kingdom ? 3-d Bible stories 3-d revelations is a unique use of the s magic Eye am offers 30 pages of 3-d images that Are backdrops to Disney characters. The cover has a hidden 3-d Mickey mouse i Maureen Conlan Cincinnati Post paperback reviews r what Johnny should t read textbook censorship in America by Joan Delfattore Yale University press. Delfattore presents a Chil Ling account of the religious right s Campaign to limit intellectual Freedom. Because of their vociferous protests Over textbook Content activists Mel and Norm Gabler neither of whom completed col lege have been Able to overrule committees of scholars. The efforts of the Gables and other activists Are not restricted to introducing creationism into american classrooms. They seek to prevent All Stu dents from Reading anything they perceive As con r a tray to fundamentalism. The top ten of everything by Russell Ash dorling Kinder sly. The first american edition of a volume that appears annually in Britain this Book contains useful listings of the biggest longest most popular Etc. It also offers useless data. Who needs to know that the word the appears 63,924 times in the old and new testaments the Book might help Settle bar bets but caveat Lector not All of the information is Correct. Still weird by Gahan Wilson forge. This Large format anthology provides an overview of More than 25 years of Wilson s outr6 cartoons from play. Boy the National Lampoon and other magazines. His use of Black humor and often macabre situations were obviously influenced by Charles Addams. But Gary Larson s the far Side and its Many imitators have moved off the Wall cartoons in new and funnies directions and Wilson s work often feels dated. Try Black and White reproductions reduce his wonderfully icky wat Creolor washes to barely legible smudges. Charles Solomon los Angeles times new York times ust hardback re . 1 politically Correct bedtime stores by James finn gamer last week 1,weeks on list. 29 ,. ,. .2 the Celestine prophecy by James Redfield Las. Week 2 weeks on list i "45 -. 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Distio. -. 2 Don t stand too close to naked Man by Tim Allen last week 1 weeks. 3 Las week 4wetksonlis1 18 4 the Book of Virtues by William j. Bennett last week .6 weeks on list 55 5 James her lot i cat stores by James Heniot last week 3 weeks on fist is ,. -.v-v-. I Barbara Bush a Memoir by Barbara Bush last week 5 weeks on list 17. 7 the hot zone by Richard Preston Las week 8 weeks on list 13i Dolly by Dolly Parton last week 7 weeks on Lisi 1 3 v t the Bell curve by Richard j. Bessie in last week 10 weeks on list 10 10 the Warren Butler Way by Robert g. Aastrom or. Last week 9, weeks on. Fist 6 11 baseball by Geoffrey c. Ward and Ken bums last Sefc 11 weeks on list a ,.i4V. .12 Midnight i the Garden of Good and la Trendt last week 12weeks on list 44 -. 13 it was t always easy. 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