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...remark about Lutèce's frozen turbot, that accusation stirred temblors in Manhattan stockpots. Lutece's Chef Andre Soltner indignantly produced fish market receipts to show one and all that his turbot was fresh. Lieb apologized, and the usually meticulous New Yorker, accused of publishing a canard, explained that to preserve Otto's anonymity, it had taken the exceptional step of allowing the author of the piece to do most of the checking...
...great cookbook can compete with any adventure novel. It will have glamorous, expensive leading characters like Mam'selle Canard and Signor Vitello, and a savory supporting cast. There will be cuttings and slicings, pairings and peelings, as in any other thriller, and the unpredictable can always be expected. Like a good novel, a well-done cookbook is also a sociological document, recording the infinite ways in which people all over the world nourish, titillate and please, borrowing from one culture, lending to another. Even before the Romans planted vines in Southern France, before Marco Polo returned from China bearing...
Then there is the canard that a woman's menstrual cycle inhibits peak performance. World and Olympic records, however, have been set by women who were having their periods. Nor does exertion disrupt the cycle for most women athletes. Says one world-class runner: "I'm so regular, it's ridiculous." However, some women undergoing hard training do stop menstruating for months at a time. This cessation of the cycle, called amenorrhea, occurs in about 45% of women who run over 65 miles a week-as well as in dancers, ice skaters and gymnasts. Many experts link...
...rumormongers. This summer anonymous stickers showed up on subway cars bearing the punchline: IS NEW YORK READY FOR A GAY MAYOR? Says Koch: "They've been doing that for 14 years. I'm inured to it by now." He is only slightly more irritated by the whispered canard that he is really an Episcopalian. "What a low blow," he chuckles. "But I don't mind so much because it's so ridiculous...
Judge Hubert Pinsseau has finally dismissed the case, not because of the government's obstruction but because he concluded that no wrong had been done. The Canard had no right to privacy, Judge Pinsseau ruled, because the privacy law covers only private residences. Furthermore, he noted, the intruders had never actually finished installing their bugs. Even if the editors had been at work and even if someone had listened in on them, he declared, there could be no invasion of privacy because journalists "cannot and in principle could not conduct in their professional offices conversations of anything other than...