Word: confect
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...over Europe in the 1890s, Louis Comfort Tiffany was ready with an American version of the new style. The 88 color plates in The Lamps of Tiffany Studios (Abrams; 178 pages; $120) demonstrate the distinctive artistry of the designer, who used 5,000 colors and textures of glass to confect his fanciful, flower-bedecked shades. For 40 years his Long Island foundries turned out the lamps that cast a gaudy glow in U.S. homes. Then Tiffany objects went out of style, and in the early 1930s their creator went bankrupt. In the late 1950s an art nouveau boom sent dealers...
...well-flavored sauces and gravies have graced English food since the Roman occupation. (Pastry, too, was introduced by Caesar's men.) English cuisine, even more than the French, is most notable for its regional diversities, which Ayrton explores and exalts with expertise and charm. She tells how to confect Wiltshire lardy cake and Yorkshire hot wine pudding, chickens as lizards and rum roast of lamb (for the sailor's return) -not to mention belly-warming Bedfordshire clangers, Oxfordshire sweet devil or the great Melton Mowbray pie, which long before the sandwich was the foxhunter's favorite lunch...
...Jackson is innocent question the possibility that he could have received--or that Drumgo and Cluchette will receive--a fair trial. It would have been in Jackson's case--and will be in the case of the other two Soledad Brothers--too easy for California officials to manipulate and confect incriminating evidence. Potential defense witnesses could be intimidate by the threat of prolonged confinement if they testify...
...merely spawned a theatrical bureaucracy of so-so actors and so-so directors who are not above displaying a sly slapdash contempt for their so-so audiences. The rank mediocrity of most resident companies has been camouflaged by some New York drama critics, who put down Broadway commercialism and confect gorgeous fictions about the distinguished dramatic art and high esthetic integrity that they have discovered in Nome, Keokuk and the lower Gaspé Peninsula...
Fortunately, Verdon, 41, seldom had to confect family meals, which are usually prepared in a separate second-floor kitchen by Mrs. Zephyr Wright, the Johnson cook for 23 years. At $ 10,000 a year, he was hardly overpaid-but then how many chefs can boast that they slept in the White House for nearly five years? René's reign was not seriously threatened until last October, when Mrs. Mary Kaltman, an old family friend and a veteran director of foods at such epicurean establishments as Harlingen Air Force Base and Austin's Driskill Hotel-whose manager describes...