Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great 19th century French epicure whose classic The Physiology of Taste Fisher lovingly translated in 1949. "Gastronomy rules all life," he wrote. "The newborn baby's tears demand the nurse's breast, and the dying man receives, with some pleasure, the last cooling drink." -By Patricia Blake...
...forced into exile. "I did it out of moral conviction and a simple sense of professional duty," she says. "Basically, I attempted to act as if I were a free person in a free country." In the Soviet Union, that attempt is itself a formidable achievement. -By Patricia Blake...
...seeing his first entry as a member to its annual show rejected by his colleagues-Constable did not have the knack of getting on with clients or fellow artists. He was timid, prickly, complacent and sardonic by turns. "Why, this is not drawing, but inspiration?' exclaimed William Blake over one of his tree studies. "I never knew it before," Constable snapped. "I meant it for drawing...
...moral tone of this melodrama of murderers, scoundrels and sadistic sex. As Thomas well knows, poets have historically served as a symbol of redemption in Russia. But merely dropping their names will not redeem Ararat for readers who expected more from the author of The White Hotel. -By Patricia Blake...
...eyes of the denizens of Happy Valley. After the murder, Broughton had gone to Lord Erroll's estate and killed one of his dogs, a dachshund. As Lady Delamere saw it, there could no longer be any doubt that Broughton was "the most evil man." -By Patricia Blake...