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...plot of Flamingo Road, as with most nighttime soaps, is simplicity itself. Lane Ballou (Cristina Raines), a good girl from the bad side of nowhere, comes to Truro, a small Florida town. There she attracts the attentions of both Sam Curtis (John Beck), a tomcatting entrepreneur, and Fielding Carlyle (Mark Harmon), a political comer who weds Constance Wei-don (Morgan Fairchild), the snooty illegitimate daughter of Whorehouse Madam Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens) and Millowner Claude Weldon (Kevin Mc Carthy), who is married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo...
...measles, even ordinary colds; and although Omega has never seemed seriously ill, his sperm count is now nil. No one is sure why. It could be his weight (obesity can interfere with gorilla lovemaking); it could also be years of sexual inactivity. Whatever the reason, says Primate Curator Benjamin Beck, Omega's condition is all too common among gorillas in captivity, and that has scientists worried...
Emily Morison Beck, Editor Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Boston
...into three parts: classic, nouvelle and provincial. Many of the top chefs who miraculously find time to write these books are, hélas, unable to spread the flavors of their tables across the printed page. Louisette Bertholle provides a salivating exception. A collaborator with Julia Child and Simone Beck in Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Bertholle has written a comprehensive, down-to-earth guide to French family cooking that is both witty and percipient. Her French Cuisine for All (Doubleday; $19.95), meticulously edited for the American cook, covers the Gallic spectrum from country soups and dandelion salad...
...think of Bartlett's as literary archaeology," says Beck, ";in which familiar and noteworthy quotations reveal . . . the nature of the age and the people who created them." If so, the 15th edition, with its chorus of sayings by Neil Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, R.D. Laing, Mick Jagger and the rest of the tribe, reminds one of Victor Hugo's platitude about an idea whose time has come, a quotation that Beck calmly assures us Hugo never said. Bartlett would have been proud...