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From the first sip of the proffered aperitif at El Bulli--a frozen gin with hot lemon fizz--you know you're in for something different. Ferran Adria has won the adulation of food critics and cooks by whipping up startling combinations of texture, temperature and taste: bite-size cuttlefish ravioli that explode in a burst of coconut and ginger, soft-boiled quail egg with a crispy caramel crust, a polenta of frozen powdered Parmesan cheese, almond ice cream on a swirl of garlic oil and balsamic vinegar...
...amazing to me that citizens of the so-called land of the free must live their lives in constant fear of gun violence." ADRIA WINFIELD Timisoara, Romania...
Total sales to date: 10 million copies, an alltime record for U.S. fiction. In 1945, a Random House editor read A Lion Is in the Streets, by Adria Langley. He rejected it, reporting that "40 pages of this magnolia-laden junk was all I could stand." Lion, published later by Whittlesey House, sold 250,000 copies. A more recent example is the history of Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, a shotgun attack on the Warren Commission. "We commissioned him to write it," says Publisher Barney Rosset of Grove Press, which is known chiefly for its back list...
Sandra Chroness of Oneenta, N.Y., and Bertram Hall, who is concentrating in history and literature; Adria Holmes of South Hadley, Mass., and Whitman Hall, concentrating in philosophy; Evelyn Janover of New York and Barnard Hall, majoring in history and literature; Shirley B. Johnson of Wichita, Kansas and Eliot Hall, concentrating in government; carol Latter of Bronx, N.Y., and Barnard Hall, majoring in history and literature; Marina von Neumaun of Princeton, N.J., and Holmes Hall, concentrating in government...
...adaptation of the Adria Locke Langley best seller of the same name, A Lion is in the Streets is patterned on the career of the late Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. It is a much freer version that the recent Academy Award-winning All the Kings Men and a much less convincing one. While All the Kings Men depicted an era and a people as well as Willy Stark, A Lion is in the Streets portrays only Hank Martin, a character divorced form his context. For this reason it lacks much of the color of its black and white predecessor...