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DONANA: SPAIN'S WILDLIFE WILDERNESS by Juan Antonio Fernández. 253 pages. Taplinger. $29.95. Tucked away in a corner of Spain, southwest of Seville, is the Coto de Doñana habitat for rare and endangered species: the imperial and short-toed eagles, great bustard, bee eater, azure-winged magpie and, in migration at least, the great flamingo. Those who want to view this ornithological paradise firsthand should be aware of the customary protocol: visitors must get permits from the director of the local biological station to feast their eyes on its plumed riches. This sumptuous pictorial tour...
...ensconced in a Manhattan town house (Kenny is her second husband, her first marriage was a brief misalliance), Nicky is a happy lotus-eater. She and Kenny, who is pretty rich himself, are the hosts with the most publicity. They throw a last-minute dinner for any friend who drops in from "another planet," and "we let people wander all over the house." Nicky also gives tea parties (replete with cucumber sandwiches) in their "Kenny Gothic" drawing room, a jungle of sculpture, animal skins, Chinese tea chests and scattered bibelots...
...Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens introduces "an elderly pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man . . . who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment." That caricature of the desiccated plant-eater still pervades the English-speaking world. The very language is meaty with bias. Imagine a Beaneater martini, a fatted kale, a yam actor, a string of Turnip 'n' Brew restaurants...
...where she was going. "At five feet," she says, "I'm the right size to be elbowed in the head." Her husband often failed to introduce her at functions they attended together; he even appropriated her quotes, she claims, without giving her credit. "Son of a biscuit-eater, I'm nobody's robot...
Pizza places abound in Harvard Square, but Harvard students never seem to get their fill. Nor do they ever seem to agree on which place serves the best pizza. Fortunately, there are enough varieties around so that even the most demanding pizza eater should be able to find satisfaction...