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Four is a small banquet, but readers can choose for themselves how many stories they wish to return to, and the menu is certainly extensive. Established masters Updike, Carver, Wright Morris, and LeGuin are joined by rising talents like Laurie Colwin and Bobbie Ann Mason, as well as a host of freshman including, curiously, James Bond...
...dined at an elaborate Texas barbecue, Yeager rides to Edwards Air Force Base and steps into a new jet fighter. The Soviets, he says, have set a new speed record, and he is determined to break it. As the astronauts comfortably watch a Sally Road feather dance from their banquet hall seats. Yeager goes too for too fast and loses control. But in an act more heroic than any earth orbit he survives a crash landing and wails away from the smoldering metal heap smiting...
...haymaking, a ramble in the woods, the delight of fresh Breton butter. At the same time she produced brilliant set pieces of aristocratic life: Fouquet's trial and imprisonment on dubious evidence; the suicide of the maitre d'hotel when fish ordered for the King's banquet failed to arrive; the execution of a marquise for mass murder...
Leverett and Mather also omitted one meal from voting yesterday. Leverett was closed for dinner to make way for a Senior Common Room banquet...
That first night, when Wang Bingnan offered me his banquet of return, another old friend joined us on Fragrant Hill ? Qiao Guanhua. Qiao and I had been friends in our youth, when he was a fiery left-wing journalist. Later, as Foreign Minister of China, he and Henry Kissinger worked out the landmark "Shanghai Communique" of 1972, in which America recognized that Taiwan was part of China, but insisted on a "peaceful" solution. Qiao Guanhua had gone on with Mao to the end; he was released from house arrest by the new regime only last year; his wife, suspect...