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...right- wing firebrand, inspired by a bottle of ketchup (57 varieties) to invent the number of Communists lurking in the State Department? Or of the liberal Senator who, when shot in his kitchen, bleeds the milk of human kindness? Or of Raymond's silky schemer of a mom (Angela Lansbury), who confides her plot to rule the world, then kisses her son full on the mouth...
...Artie is forced to find friends elsewhere. Enter Angela, a brilliant, British beauty who is a classmate of his. "Of the twelve men who this stuffy room fill,/Two I'd like to screw, three I'd like to kill," she tells him in the note that serves as the overture to the relationship. Unfortunately, the line is the best thing about the affairs, if not the novel. The rest of the novel is primarily occupied with the two's inability to cope with themselves and each other...
With its caricatured characters, the relentless chronicling of Artie an Angela's relationship--from inception to ride-off-in-the-sunset ending--Arts and Sciences is at best uninspired and only mildly amusing. And though it may quote Greek and allude to Keats, Mallon's novel remains a mainstream work. Let it float...
...North House and Williamsville, New York, Business Manager, Kenneth M. Richman '90 of Winthrop House and Westport, Connecticut, Sales Manager John T. Schiavone '89 of Cabot House and Flushing, New York, Finance Manager, Amy J. Merritt '90 of Lowell House and Roslyn, New York, Advertising Manager, Angela C. Chaves '89 of Quincy House and Hudson, Massachusetts, Circulation Manager, Michael Pendleton of Mather House and Kaukaura, Wisconsin, Circulation Manager, Andrew A. Samwick '89 of Dunster House and Palm Beach Garden, Florida, Operations Manager, Anil K. Shrivastava '90 of Dunster House and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Production Manager...
...Japan: The Beauty of Food (Rizzoli; 175 pages; $50). Photographer Reinhart Wolf was not satisfied with recording only the creations of eminent chefs. He foraged in food shops to assemble sake glasses made of dried octopus, a squad of chocolate sumo wrestlers, a bouquet of lollipops, kaleidoscopic cookies. Angela Terzani's text provides morsels of its own. Sushi lovers may be abashed to learn that they have not exactly touched the ancient soul of Japan: sushi was not a hit there until the 19th century...