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...Gould has an eye for the unusual, indeed the bizarre, it is because, as he notes, "small items with big implications are my bread and butter." A confessed iconoclast, he likes nothing better than to take aim at major targets. Gould links that saintly man of the cloth and science, Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, to the infamous Piltdown hoax (the faked fossil, says Gould, was apparently a youthful prank by Teilhard), and displays irreverence for even his great hero Charles Darwin. Says Gould: "If I have one special ability, it is as a tangential thinker. I can make unusual...
...Four Seasons and Le Français, in Wheeling, Ill., use them as garnishes for meat and game or in a cream sauce. Owner-Author George Lang of Manhattan's Cafe des Artistes insists on serving them as a separate course sauteed in olive oil or butter: "They are too precious to use as a vegetable...
...lights and butter the popcorn. This is, after all, as Lucas keeps reminding us, a popcorn movie...
...Central America, and in the rhetoric of such anti-New Right groups as People for the American Way and Americans for Common Sense. But liberals need to move still further, beyond the relatively narrow foreign policy and civil liberties constituencies to the broader public concerned with bread and butter issues. The Left must pursue an alternative vision of American Democracy, one that challenges corporate autocrats' right to decide working families' fates according to their own narow interests. That is the kind of democracy that Falwell and his friends secretly fear, but that they will never see until mere Falwell-baiting...
...Chieftains wasted little time accumulating their hits as shortstop Nancy Smith pounded Rubin's second pitch of the game for a single into left. After retiring the next butter. Rubin allowed another would-be single that got by left fielder Mary MacKinnon and rolled into deep left field. That misplayed triple knocked in the first of three runs in the inning...