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Cookbooks tumble forth from American publishing houses like frites from a frying basket. In the past six months, hundreds have been published. They are profitable for the simple reason that everyone has to eat, which means that someone has to cook...
...chance you are lucky enough to find a store that is open, other skills come into play. Grocery checkouts involve a race against time: the checker shovels your purchases toward you while you try to stuff them into a bag. Don't forget your market basket either, else you'll have to buy a plastic bag -- or several, since each sack only holds approximately 2.3 items. Meanwhile, the people in line behind you start to grumble and push...
...Moorish monuments of Andalusia. As a result, he recalled, "I felt the passion for color develop in me." This was dramatically confirmed by Morocco, where Matisse's aesthetic of decoration took full hold. Flat pattern, inlaid motifs, sharp conjunctions of highly decorative forms -- as in the wonderful Basket of Oranges, 1912, with the sharp forms of citrus fruit and their leaves competing against the more diffuse pattern of the flowered silk drape on which they rest -- these were the signs of a world crammed with pictorial events, all common yet all august and tending to equivalent value...
...final decision lies with the obscure B.I.E. The European Communities' Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana, an Italian, has demanded full environmental studies, and says triumphantly that doubts about the Venice site are setting in: "It will finish in the paper basket." But outgoing Mayor Casellati is still worried. "I'm going off to sail in the lagoon," he says. "Before they destroy...
...Absolutely wrong. It had a profit because it sold a branch. Lincoln was a basket case...