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Unfortunately his latest novel, What's Bred in the Bone, is a poorly cast spell. It is a sequel to Rebel Angels, but not one which requires that you read the first book. As usual Davies begins with a brilliant premise, intriguing characters and a philosophical question that is compelling. What was the spirit which motivated Francis Cornish, the eccentric but brilliant Canadian art critic and collector, to lead a life divorced from this hollow world? But as Davies weaves his spell one gets the feeling that he suddenly realizes that he has bitten off a bit more than...
Audubon, along with Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club, is considering legal action to halt the condor roundup. The three groups point out that the birds have never bred in captivity and that the dozen hatched in zoos came from eggs taken from nests in the wild; capture of the last six wild condors, they fear, may mean no more eggs. Finally, the environmentalists say, without any condors in the wild, it will be harder to resist the pressure of developers who want to build in the birds' natural habitats. Should the day come when biologists attempt...
...sultry voice and jazzy arrangements have led some to compare her with vocalists of a bygone era, but Sade, 26, cites instead such contemporary influences as Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson and Joni Mitchell. Whatever her sources, the Nigerian-born, English-bred singer has cut a unique groove for herself. Sade (pronounced Shar-day) saw her 1984 debut album, Diamond Life, go platinum while her second, Promise, is shooting up the charts, and her current eight-city U.S. tour is sold out. She has also been named one of the world's ten most elegant women by Elle magazine. Pretty good...
...nothing are Lauder's curtains copied from the Schonbrunn Palace. In the past, according to Israel, she has beguiled the press with tales of a gently bred Hungarian-Viennese mother, a Czech father with imperial connections, a childhood spent on an estate in Flushing, N.Y. Now she tells most of the essential truth: her parents were poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and she grew up in the shabby Corona section of Queens. Israel gleefully supplies many more humble details, but Lauder gives what is probably the most important one: as a child, little Josephine Esty Mentzer was ashamed...
...Louis Cardinals were to yield the National League's East division, they pretty much had to lose three straight games to the New York Mets, and they pretty nearly did. Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog rearranged Ace John Tudor's date with Darth Gooden only to lock Tudor and well-bred Yalie Ron Darling into a 0-0 death grip, broken like a windowpane on an eleventh-inning Darryl Strawberry home run that, except for the stadium clock being digital, put spectators in mind of Roy Hobbs. Naturally, Gooden won the second game, his 24th victory at 20 years...