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...Dellio's success that Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's The Windup Bird Chronicle, a hefty 611 page work of near genius, probably won't get the attention that it deserves. Although it spans a comparatively short six months in 1984, beginning with a Japanese thirty-something making a spaghetti breakfast to the beat of Rossini's "The Thieving Magpie," The Windup Bird Chronicle is a noirish, tragi-comic epic worthy of its own praise dictionary. From a bizarre story of the thirty-something's marital and spiritual crisis, Murakami's novel kaleidoscopes out into an exploration of post-WWII Japan...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Surreal 'Chronicle' Traces Search for Cat, Identity in Japan | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...There is often a chorus at breakfast of 'B.J.' meaning I had just told a bad joke," the Baird professor of science says, admitting he is known around campus for his sense of humor as well as his chemistry know...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prankster, Chemist Herschbach Enjoys Post-Nobel Life | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

Until three years ago, I was getting a cold three or four times a year. But since I started eating garlic, I have not had a single cold. Each day I have a garlic clove with breakfast, along with a spoonful of parsley to eliminate the odor. I don't know about vampires, but it sure works against colds. PAGET SAYERS Managua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 10, 1997 | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...group of cornichons inspect piles of thinly-sliced processed meat doubling as Persian carpets with fat-swirl designs and olive-chunk embroidery. Hardly just playing with their food, in these photographs Fischli and Weiss provide a wry social critique, probing the banality and vulgarity of a middle-class Swiss breakfast--an insult to American anti-cholesterol culture. Yet, at the same time their loving construction and charming scenarios challenge a one-dimensional, cynical reading as well as our ideas about social and institutional critique...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Swiss Artists Fischli and Weiss Juggle Sarcasm, Sincerity at the ICA | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Usually, 30 to 35 seniors partake of the breakfast meal while 75 are around for lunch...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Election Occupies Senior Center | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

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