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...like him," says Angelo Dundee, "but he can't." As Arcel puts it, "He has lived in the shadow of Muhammad Ali's mouth." When not trying to sound like Ali, Holmes sounds kinder. In his guttural, good-humored speech, he declares, "I'm the baddest thing since peanut butter and jelly," and laughs lightly. Then he stops laughing. "Earnie Shavers and Renaldo Snipes may have knocked me down, but I got up and took care of business. I'm proud. A lot of people want to know if I'm in the tank for this fight"?boxing...
American-style croissants are more than just a fancy-sounding name for bread and butter. In addition to the traditional, or plain, variety, which usually sells for about 800, devotees can buy $2.50-plus croissants stuffed with everything from fruit preserves to ham, cheese and even beef bourguignon. "I was just looking for a cup of coffee and a doughnut, but I ended up with coffee and an apple croissant," said Stephen Fudge, a Canadian tourist in San Francisco. Added his enthusiastic companion, Susan Wood: "I'd take a chocolate croissant over a Big Mac any time...
Faith is a substitute for logic, but not an easy one. Speaking in the late 1930s, an old German rabbi in The Joke proclaims: "The Nazis maintain that cannons are more important than butter, but we Jews, the people of the Book, still believe in the power of the word." Yet the orthodox in Singer's tales are the ones most likely to discover that the letter can kill. They are denied the ignorance of "ordinary people who because of their simplicity are spared bad luck and go through life without any real problems." Hence, a softhearted young...
...painted without seeing them at all. The Dutch market, in the late 1650s, had a vogue for Scandinavian waterfalls; Ruisdael obligingly painted about a hundred of them, undeterred by the fact that he had never been north of Holland. His Haarlempjes, or "Views of Haarlem," were also bread and butter; their usual format is one of the best-loved images of Dutch landscape-a wide, flat horizon, punctuated by a church tower, overwhelmed by blowing clouds and permeated by Ruisdael's mild northern light. They repeat themselves, but a man has a right to his own cliches...
...take from three to six weeks or people to adjust to life with less salt. After making the break, many prefer lower-salt foods. Says Ardelle Tuma, vice president of Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott department stores: "I found that unsalted butter has a fantastic taste all its own, and vegetables have a finer, purer flavor without salt." The reason may be that a high-salt diet blunts the natural ability to perceive salt, while cutting back makes the palate more sensitive. Research by Berkeley Food Sciolist Angela Little has led her to believe that "high intake of salt...