Amarapura: Colourful longyis (skirts worn by both sexes) are produced in a distinctive heavy silk. The town’s long-established bronze industry is famous for Buddha figures, bells, and gongs. Tile, pottery, and baskets are also manufactured. Amarapura lies along the Rangoon-Mandalay railway and also serves as the junction…

qin: …called the “dragon’s gums” (longyin), and the two pegs for fastening the strings are called the “goose feet” (yanzhu). Each qin is given a unique name, which is engraved on the back side of the instrument, along with poems and the owner’s (or owners’) seals.

Dipsacales: Lonicera clade: The Lonicera clade includes five genera and 220 species, mostly in northern temperate areas of East Asia and eastern North America. The largest genus, Lonicera has 180 species of shrubs and woody vines known as honeysuckles. Many Lonicera species, some of which are…

honeysuckle, (genus Lonicera), genus of about 180 species of ornamental shrubs and climbers of the family Caprifoliaceae. Honeysuckles are native to temperate zones of both hemispheres, but they also grow in the Himalayas, southern Asia, and North Africa; the majority of species are found in China.

honeysuckle: Major species: Perfoliate, or sweet, honeysuckle (Lonicera caprifolium) is native to Eurasia but has become established in North America. Its clustered night-blooming purple-white flowers are pollinated mostly by night-feeding hawk moths, because the flower tubes are too long for most other insects to reach the nectar. The fruit is a red-orange…

honeysuckle: Major species: …climbing species is the giant Burmese honeysuckle (L. hildebrandiana), with 15-cm (6-inch) deep green leaves, 17-cm (7-inch) yellow flowers, and green berries. The Japanese honeysuckle (L. japonica) of eastern Asia has become an invasive species in many areas by growing over other plants and shutting out light. It has fragrant…

honeysuckle: Major species: The Japanese honeysuckle (L. japonica) of eastern Asia has become an invasive species in many areas by growing over other plants and shutting out light. It has fragrant yellowish white flowers and black berries. Trumpet honeysuckle (L. sempervirens) has oval, sometimes joined leaves and climbs high…

sweetbrier: …denote, it is thought, the woodbine honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum), which is still called eglantine in northeastern Yorkshire.

honeysuckle: Major species: Trumpet honeysuckle (L. sempervirens) has oval, sometimes joined leaves and climbs high in forest trees. Its orange-scarlet spikes of 5-cm (2-inch) tubular five-lobed flowers and red berries are common throughout eastern North America.

honeysuckle: Major species: …more widespread shrub honeysuckles are Tartarian honeysuckle (L. tartarica), from southeastern Europe and Siberia, and four Chinese species—winter honeysuckle (L. fragrantissima), privet honeysuckle (L. pileata), box honeysuckle (L. nitida), and lilac-flowered honeysuckle (L. syringantha).

Studs Lonigan, fictional character, the protagonist of James T. Farrell’s trilogy Studs Lonigan (1932, 1934,

Andrew Of Lonjumel was a French Dominican friar who, as an ambassador of Louis IX (St. Louis) of France, led a diplomatic mission destined for the court of the Mongol khan Güyük. His report of the journey across Central Asia and back (1249 to 1251/52), though a mixture of fact and fiction, contains

Jainism: Late medieval–early modern developments (1100–1800): …practice of image worship, the Lumpaka, or Lonka Gaccha, did not. Founded by the mid-15th-century layman Lonka Shah, the Lonka Gaccha denied the scriptural warranty of image worship and in the 17th century emerged as the non-image-worshipping Sthanakavasi sect. At the end of the 18th century, the Sthanakavasi underwent a…

Eino Leino was a prolific and versatile poet, a master of Finnish poetic forms, the scope of whose talent ranges from the visionary and mystical to topical novels, pamphlets, and critical journalism. Leino studied at the University of Helsinki and worked as a journalist, principally as literary and

Elias Lönnrot was a folklorist and philologist who created the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala (1835, enlarged 1849), from short ballads and lyric poems collected from oral tradition. He also published Kanteletar (1840–41; “Old Songs and Ballads of the Finnish People”) and collections of

Hawaiian: Lono—and innumerable lesser gods and tutelary deities. Animals, plants, places, professions, families, and all other objects and forces had their gods or spirits. Temples of stone and idols of wood abounded, and hardly anything was undertaken without religious ceremonies. Priests and sorcerers were potent. On…

Lons-le-Saunier, town, Jura département, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté région, eastern France, south-southeast of Dijon. Located at 846 feet (258 metres) above sea level in the valley of the Solvan, it is surrounded by vine-clad hills. It is a pleasant spa, owing its original Roman name, Salinarius, to

cigar: 75 inches long; Lonsdale is the same shape as a corona, about 6.5 inches long; ideales is a slender torpedo-shaped cigar, tapered at the lighting end, about 6.5 inches long; bouquet is a smaller torpedo-shaped cigar; Londres is a straight cigar about 4.75 inches long. These descriptive terms…

Lonsdale Belt, British boxing award originated in 1909 by Lord Lonsdale, president of the National Sporting Club. The first belt went to a lightweight, Freddie Welsh. A belt was originally given to the champion in each division and was passed on as the title changed hands. From 1929 the belts were

Dame Kathleen Lonsdale was a British crystallographer who developed several X-ray techniques for the study of crystal structure. She was the first woman to be elected (1945) to the Royal Society of London. From 1922 to 1927 and from 1937 to 1942, she was research assistant to Sir William Henry

Frederick Leonard Lonsdale was a British playwright and librettist whose lightweight comedies of manners were admired because of their tight construction and epigrammatic wit. Lonsdale established himself as a librettist of musical comedies, chief among them being The King of Cadonia (1908), The

Gordon Arnold Lonsdale was a spy for the U.S.S.R. who in March 1961 was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a British court. Lonsdale’s family moved to Poland in 1932, where he served, under various aliases, in the underground during World War II. He served in the Soviet military administration in

oceanic ridge: Pacific Ocean: Fox, and Peter F. Lonsdale discovered that the main spreading centre appears to be interrupted and offset a few kilometres to one side at various places along the crest of the East Pacific Rise. However, the ends of the offset spreading centres overlap each other by several…

William Lonsdale was an English geologist and paleontologist whose studies of fossil corals suggested the existence of an intermediate system of rocks, the Devonian System, between the Carboniferous System (299 million to 359 million years old) and the Silurian System (416 million to 444 million

otter: Conservation and classification: Genus Lontra 4 species found in the Americas. Species L. canadensis(Noth American river otter) Species L. felina(marine otter) Species L. longicaudis(neotropical otter)

otter: Conservation and classification: North American river otters (L. canadensis) are still taken as part of the commercial fur trade, but the primary threats to others are the destruction of wetland habitats and pollution. Heavy metals and contaminants such as mercury and PCBs

sea otter: Some authorities also consider the marine otter (Lontra felina), a species that lives along the rocky Pacific coast of South America, to be a type of sea otter, because it hunts in shoreline and nearshore ocean areas, preying on crabs and other marine invertebrates. Unlike its northern cousin, however, the…

otter: Conservation and classification: …giant otter, marine otter, and southern river otter (Lontra provocax) of South America, the sea otter of North America, and the hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana) of Asia—as endangered and two—the short-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus) and smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata)—as vulnerable.

loo, gambling card game often mentioned in English literature. The name derives from the French lanturlu, the refrain of a popular 17th-century song. Popularity of the game faded in the 20th century. The players may number from five to about nine, each playing for himself. A standard 52-card deck

Pakistan: Climate: …the summer, hot winds called loos blow across the plains during the day. Trees shed their leaves to avoid excessive moisture loss. The dry, hot weather is broken occasionally by dust storms and thunderstorms that temporarily lower the temperature. Evenings are cool; the diurnal variation in temperature may be as…

falconry: History: …Netherlands, and in 1839 the Loo Hawking Club, an Anglo-Dutch society under the patronage of the crown prince (soon to become King William II) of the Netherlands, was formed. In 1853, when the royal patronage was withdrawn, the Loo Club expired. Falconry was kept alive in England by a few…

drum table, heavy circular table with a central support, which was introduced in the late 18th century. The deep top, commonly covered with tooled leather, was fitted with bookshelves or drawers, some of which were imitation. The support was sometimes in the form of a pillar resting on four

Charles-André Van Loo was a Rococo painter especially known for his elegant portraits of European royalty and fashionable society in the mid-18th century. He belonged to a noted family of artists of Flemish origin. His elder brother, Jean-Baptiste Van Loo, brought him up and taught him his

Apeldoorn: …the town’s northern outskirts is Het Loo, a royal palace built for William III in 1686 around a smaller castle. Apeldoorn is a junction for roads and railways and is connected by canal to Zwolle. Pop. (2007 est.) 155,564.

Looe, town (parish), Cornwall unitary authority, southwestern England. It is divided into East and West Looe by the River Looe, which combines at Looe from its east and west branches to form a harbour just inland from the English Channel. East Looe beach is sandy, whereas the Hannafore (West Looe)

loofah, (genus Luffa), genus of seven species of annual climbing vines of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), native to the Old World tropics. Two species (Luffa acutangula and L. aegyptiaca) are commonly cultivated for their fruits, which are edible when young and have a fibrous spongelike interior

Stanley Kubrick: Early life and films: Roosevelt’s death) to Look magazine. Kubrick aborted his studies at the City College of New York shortly after he had started them so that he could join the staff of Look at age 17, and he then traveled the country as a photojournalist for more than four years.…

Jennifer Egan: In her second novel, Look at Me (2001)—a story about a model whose face needs to be rebuilt after she is injured in an automobile accident—Egan explored the themes of identity and reality in a world driven by consumerism. The book was a National Book Award finalist. She took…

Kurt Vonnegut: …unpublished short stories, assembled in Look at the Birdie (2009) and While Mortals Sleep (2011). We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012) comprised an early unpublished novella and a fragment of a novel unfinished at his death. A selection of his correspondence was published as Letters (2012). Complete Stories…

Tony Richardson: …adaptations of his stage successes Look Back in Anger (1959), The Entertainer (1960), and A Taste of Honey (1961), as well as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), based on the novel by Alan Sillitoe. Richardson also produced Sillitoe’s novel Saturday Night and Sunday

Look Back in Anger, play in three acts by John Osborne, performed in 1956 and published in 1957. A published description of Osborne as an “angry young man” was extended to apply to an entire generation of disaffected young British writers who identified with the lower classes and viewed the upper

Look Homeward, Angel, novel by Thomas Wolfe, published in 1929. It is a thinly veiled autobiography. The novel traces the unhappy early years of the introspective protagonist, Eugene Gant, before he sets off for graduate study at Harvard. Wolfe employed a remarkable variety of literary styles in

Look Homeward, Angel, novel by Thomas Wolfe, published in 1929. It is a thinly veiled autobiography. The novel traces the unhappy early years of the introspective protagonist, Eugene Gant, before he sets off for graduate study at Harvard. Wolfe employed a remarkable variety of literary styles in

Elvis Costello: with the band the Roots; Look Now (2018), which won the Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album; and Hey Clockface (2020). In 2021 he released Spanish Model, a Spanish-language version of This Year’s Model; it featured numerous other artists, including Juanes. Costello also cowrote (with Burnett) the Academy Award-nominated…

Taylor Swift: Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, and controversies: …released the hit song “Look What You Made Me Do,” and her album Reputation became the top-selling American LP of 2017.

Kirstie Alley: Cheers and Veronica’s Closet: …Travolta in the popular comedy Look Who’s Talking; she played a single woman who has her married lover’s baby. The two actors became friends, and they appeared in the sequels Look Who’s Talking Too (1990) and Look Who’s Talking Now (1993).

Kirstie Alley: Cheers and Veronica’s Closet: …Who’s Talking Too (1990) and Look Who’s Talking Now (1993).

Kirstie Alley: Cheers and Veronica’s Closet: …they appeared in the sequels Look Who’s Talking Too (1990) and Look Who’s Talking Now (1993).

W. H. Auden: Life: In On This Island (1937; in Britain, Look, Stranger!, 1936) his verse became more open in texture and accessible to a larger public. For the Group Theatre, a society that put on experimental and noncommercial plays in London, he wrote first The Dance of Death (a…

carangid: …most unusual-looking carangids is the lookdown (Selene vomer), with an exceptionally thin body and high “forehead.” The first rays of the second dorsal fin extend into filaments that reach to the tail. Many of these fishes are valued for food or sport. Certain species, however, such as the greater amberjack…

Bob Baffert: …the Triple Crown races until Lookin at Lucky captured the 2010 Preakness. In 2015 American Pharoah charged to solid victories in the Kentucky Derby (by a length), the Preakness Stakes (by 7 lengths in rain and mud), and the Belmont Stakes (by 5 1/2 lengths) in Baffert’s fourth attempt at…

Hal Ashby: The 1980s: …next efforts—Second-Hand Hearts (1981) and Lookin’ to Get Out (1982), which actually was filmed before Hearts but was left on the shelf for two years—were poorly received. Searching for a change of pace, Ashby directed Let’s Spend the Night Together (1982), a Rolling Stones concert film that he assembled in…

Usher: Here I Stand, Raymond v. Raymond, and Coming Home: …was among the highlights of Looking 4 Myself (2012), an expansive album that found him increasingly influenced by electronic dance music. Usher’s eighth studio album, Hard II Love, was released in 2016. “A” (2018), a collaboration with the producer Zaytoven, drew mixed reviews. That same year saw the end of…

Fleur Adcock: … (1986), Time Zones (1991), and Looking Back (1997)—Adcock brought a measured, Classical detachment to bear upon the vagaries of emotional experience. The Inner Harbour (1979) is generally cited as her most artistically successful work. Her later collections included Poems, 1960–2000 (2000), Dragon Talk (2010), The Land Ballot (2015), and

Lois Lowry: Memoirs and other works: Lowry also published Looking Back: A Book of Memories (1998), an inventive memoir that takes its cues from family photographs. It was revised and expanded in 2016. In 2020 she published On the Horizon: Memories of World War II, based on her recollections of living in Hawaii just…

Edward Bellamy: …chiefly for his utopian novel Looking Backward, 2000–1887.

John Green: Looking for Alaska won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature. Green’s next book, An Abundance of Katherines (2006), was named a Printz honour book in 2007. Its main character, Colin, has dated 19 girls named Katherine, and they have…

Eric Cantona: …that starred Cate Blanchett, and Looking for Eric (2009), which tells the story of a Manchester United fan who gets life lessons from an insightful Cantona, who appears as a hallucination. Cantona’s personal philosophy was expressed in the book Cantona on Cantona (1996; cowritten with Alex Flynn).

Richard Brooks: Later work: …an adaptation of Judith Rossner’s best seller about a repressed teacher (Diane Keaton) whose sexual explorations end in tragedy. A controversial moneymaker upon its release, the film earned mixed reviews, with much of the criticism directed at Brooks’s direction.

Brian Dennehy: …his big-screen debut, appearing in Looking for Mr. Goodbar and in the football comedy Semi-Tough. His film career took off soon after, with a number of small parts in the late 1970s followed by larger roles, such as the sheriff in First Blood (1982), the earliest of the Rambo movies,…

Al Pacino: TV and stage work: …also directed the documentary films Looking for Richard (1996) and Wilde Salomé (2011), which offered behind-the-scenes looks at two of his stage productions.

Clarence Brown: The 1930s: …Brown directed the Depression-era drama Looking Forward, about a store owner (Lewis Stone) who is forced to lay off a longtime employee (Lionel Barrymore). Also released that year was Night Flight, which employed a number of MGM’s top stars—Lionel Barrymore and his brother, John, as well as Gable, Hayes, Myrna…

South Africa: Literature: …Kennis van die aand (1973; Looking on Darkness), Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter (1979), and Breyten Breytenbach’s In Africa Even the Flies Are Happy (1977). Also during this time, the government enacted the Publications Act of 1974, which expanded and strengthened existing censorship policies. Many authors went into exile;

Alexey von Jawlensky: …viewed faces, such as his Looking Within Night (1923), with a mystical intensity that has led them to be compared to the icons of the Russian Orthodox church.

David Schwimmer: Early life and education: …to the launching of the Lookingglass Theatre Company, which Schwimmer cofounded with seven other Northwestern alumni following graduation in 1988.

The Brady Bunch: …(Christopher Knight), and Bobby (Mike Lookinland); the girls, Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb), and Cindy (Susan Olsen); and Alice Nelson (Ann B. Davis), the wisecracking live-in housekeeper. While the initial season’s stories sometimes touched on the difficulties of adjusting to life in a combined family, the overall focus…

Joseph McElroy: Lookout Cartridge (1974), perhaps his best work, is a political thriller about a filmmaker who searches London and New York City in an effort to recover movie footage that may have recorded a crime. Plus (1976) is a science-fiction work about a rebellious disembodied brain…

Lookout Mountain, narrow southwestern ridge of the Cumberland Plateau and a segment of the Appalachian Mountains, U.S., extending south-southwestward for 75 miles (120 km), from Moccasin Bend, Tennessee, on the Tennessee River across northwestern Georgia to Gadsden, Alabama. Most peaks along the

Battle of Lookout Mountain, in the American Civil War, one of the battles that ended the Confederate siege of Union troops at Chattanooga, Tenn. See Chattanooga, Battle

mineral deposit: Carbonatite deposits: …source of rare earths; the Loolekop Complex, Palabora, South Africa, mined for copper and apatite (calcium phosphate, used as a fertilizer), plus by-products of gold, silver, and other metals; Jacupiranga, Brazil, a major resource of rare earths; Oka, Quebec, Canada, a niobium-rich body; and the Kola Peninsula of Russia, mined…

loom, machine for weaving cloth. The earliest looms date from the 5th millennium bc and consisted of bars or beams fixed in place to form a frame to hold a number of parallel threads in two sets, alternating with each other. By raising one set of these threads, which together formed the warp, it

mirage: This phenomenon is called looming.

Earth sciences: Understanding of clouds, fog, and dew: In 1841 the American astronomer-meteorologist Elias Loomis recognized the following causes: warm air coming into contact with cold earth or water, responsible for fog; mixing of warm and cold currents, which commonly results in light rains; and sudden transport of air into high regions, as by flow up a mountain…

Mabel Loomis Todd was an American writer and editor who was largely responsible for editing the first posthumously published editions of the poems of Emily Dickinson. Mabel Loomis graduated from Georgetown Seminary in Washington, D.C., and then studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in

loon, (order Gaviiformes), any of five species of diving birds constituting the genus Gavia, family Gaviidae. Loons were formerly included, along with the grebes, to which they bear a superficial resemblance, in the order Colymbiformes, but they are considered to constitute their own separate

history of the Low Countries: The development of the territorial principalities and the rise of the towns (925–c. 1350): …of Namur, the county of Loon (which was, however, to a large degree dependent on the bishopric of Liège and incorporated in it from 1366), the county of Holland and Zeeland, and the county (after 1339, duchy) of Guelders. The Frisian areas (approximately corresponding to the modern provinces of Friesland…

common loon, (Gavia immer), the most abundant loon species (order Gaviiformes) in North America. It is distinguished from other loons by its breeding season coloration—that is, by its black head and bill, the striped black-and-white ring of feathers that encircles its neck, and the striking

Looney Tunes, animated short films produced by the Warner Brothers studios beginning in 1930. Spurred by the success of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse cartoons, Warner Brothers contracted with Leon Schlesinger to produce an animated short that incorporated music from the studio’s extensive recording

Nicobar Islands: …and Nancowry (central group), and Great Nicobar (south).

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: …Loong Boonmee raleuk chat (2010; Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), which won the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes film festival. It tells the story of a dying man who is visited in turn by the ghost of his dead wife and that of his missing son…

sound: Fundamentals and harmonics: …divided into equal segments called loops. Each loop is one-half wavelength long, and the wavelength is related to the length of the string by the following equation:

stunt flying: …became the first to “loop the loop” in the United States, but the first flyer ever to loop was Russian flyer Petr Nesterov (died 1914, in one of the early dogfights of World War I). Nesterov performed his loop on September 9 (August 27, Old Style), 1913, a feat…

navigation: Direction finders: …signals picked up by a loop antenna are weakest when the plane of the loop is perpendicular to the direction in which the radio waves are traveling. If the receiver is tuned to the frequency of a particular transmitter and the loop is rotated for minimum signal pickup, the direction…

Gulf of Mexico: Hydrology: Meandering masses of water, called loop currents, break off from the main stream and also move clockwise into the northeastern part of the gulf. Both seasonal and annual variations occur in these loop currents. A less well-defined pattern exists in the western gulf. There the currents are relatively weak, varying…

Kirchhoff’s rules: The second rule, the loop equation, states that around each loop in an electric circuit the sum of the emf’s (electromotive forces, or voltages, of energy sources such as batteries and generators) is equal to the sum of the potential drops, or voltages across each of the resistances, in…

loop of Henle, long U-shaped portion of the tubule that conducts urine within each nephron of the kidney of reptiles, birds, and mammals. The principal function of the loop of Henle is in the recovery of water and sodium chloride from urine. This function allows production of urine that is far more

pile: In looped pile the loops are uncut; in cut pile the same or similar loops are cut, either in the loom during weaving or by a special machine after the cloth leaves the loom.

gasoline engine: Two-stroke cycle: This loading process, called loop scavenging, is the simplest known method of replacing the exhaust products with a fresh mixture and creating a cycle with only compression and power strokes.

Francis Alÿs: Another work from 1997, The Loop, reflected Alÿs’s response to the contentious issue of illegal immigration over the U.S.-Mexico border. In order to get from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego, California, he took 29 days to circumnavigate the world in the opposite direction, beginning in Tijuana and flying to…

the Loop, 35-block area of downtown Chicago, Illinois, U.S. The name probably derives from a cable-car line that circled the city’s central business district in the 1880s, though the term’s use became most common following the completion in 1897 of the Chicago Union Elevated Railway (the “El”),

roller coaster: Coney Island amusement park: …Edward Prescott built the 1901 Loop-the-Loop at Coney Island, with a softer, oval-shaped design. It was better crafted than Flip-Flap, but it would still be another 75 years before a successful vertical loop was realized. Although hampered by a low seating capacity that eventually ran it aground, Loop-the-Loop was the…

measuring worm, (family Geometridae), the larva of any of a large group of moths in the order Lepidoptera. Because the larva lacks the middle pair of legs, it moves in a characteristic “inching,” or “looping,” gait by extending the front part of the body and bringing the rear up to meet it. The

Rian Johnson: …movie was the sci-fi thriller Looper (2012). The futuristic drama featured Gordon-Levitt as a hit man for a criminal organization that exploits time travel to commit murder undiscovered, and it earned critical plaudits and a large popular audience.

motion-picture technology: Dialogue: …commonly known as dubbing, or looping. Looping involves cutting loops out of identical lengths of picture, sound track, and blank magnetic film. The actor listens to the cue track while watching the scene over and over. The actor rehearses the line so that it matches the wording and lip movements…

computer programming language: Control structures: Iteration, or looping, gives computers much of their power. They can repeat a sequence of steps as often as necessary, and appropriate repetitions of quite simple steps can solve complex problems.

Adolf Loos was an Austrian architect whose planning of private residences strongly influenced European Modernist architects after World War I. Frank Lloyd Wright credited Loos with doing for European architecture what Wright was doing in the United States. Educated in Dresden, Germany, Loos

Anita Loos was an American novelist and Hollywood screenwriter celebrated for her novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which became the basis of a popular play, two musicals, and two films. By the time of her death it had run through 85 editions and translations into 14 languages. Loos was a child

farm building: Livestock barns and shelters: … (or stanchion barn) and the loose-housing system. In the stall barn each animal is tied up in a stall for resting, feeding, milking, and watering. The typical plan has two rows of stalls. In older buildings hay and straw are stored in an overhead loft, but in modern layouts adjacent…

economic regionalism: In contrast, “loose” regionalism is characterized by the lack of formal and binding institutional arrangements and a reliance on informal consultative mechanisms and consensus-building measures. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which was established as a mechanism to foster the creation of a free-trade area, is a good…

Sandra Cisneros: …Wicked, Wicked Ways (1987), and Loose Woman (1994)—followed. The children’s book Hairs = Pelitos (1994) uses the differing hair textures within a single family to explore issues of human diversity. The volume was based on an episode related in The House on Mango Street and was told in both Spanish…