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...clichEd detective slang. And Bradby doesn't bore us by showing off all that historical research. Instead, he weaves together a vivid portrait of the times and a ripping good crime tale as he slowly unravels the characters' hidden secrets (and they all have them). As Field's ribald aunt puts it: "Everyone expects Shanghai to be decadent so we like to give the impression of debauchery." The Master of Rain goes her even one further, providing debauchery at its most elegant...
...lesser-known dishes. At the same time, the reader picks up knowledge that is not strictly culinary. For example, that baba means coquettish and ghanoush is, roughly, dissolute - adjectives that seem unlikely for an aubergine purée but which Jamal explains in a delightful story about his aunt's unmarried daughter. He also writes of an Algerian visiting Jerusalem who asked for couscous. In colloquial Arabic of the Middle East, unlike the Maghreb nations, cous can mean vagina. The hapless Algerian was asking...
Margaret's nephew Prince Charles, who, after hearing the news, traveled to the royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk to stay with the now frail Queen Mother, paid tribute to his "darling aunt." Said he: "She had such a wonderfully free spirit. She loved life and lived it to the full." She had incredible musical talents and a very sharp mind, he noted, and she would be hugely missed by his family. For all her faults, Princess Margaret will also be missed by many Britons. If nothing else, the passionate, unpredictable princess brought life and color to a royal family once...
DIED. EILEEN HECKART, 82, animated, gravelly-voiced actress known for her down-to-earth performances on stage, screen and television; of cancer; in Norwalk, Conn. Widely known as Mary's savvy Aunt Flo on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Heckart got her break in Picnic on Broadway in 1953 and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as the overbearing mother in the 1972 film Butterflies Are Free. In 2000 she returned to the stage with an acclaimed performance as a woman dying of Alzheimer's in The Waverly Gallery...
...made French woman Jeanine Salomone special. Achieving motherhood by using her bachelor brother's sperm via in vitro fertilization made her repugnant to many. In the world's first case of clinical incest, the siblings duped a California fertility doctor into helping them become mom and dad - and aunt and uncle - to a baby boy. In a further twist, the boy was joined by a sister a week later after a surrogate mother, also impregnated with the brother's seed, delivered a baby girl...