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Puig, a brilliant eclectic, produced some of the signature buildings of Barcelona. One is the Casa Amatller, next to Gaudi's Casa Batllo, a fecund parody of a Dutch burgher's housefront, with mock-medieval sculptures by the gifted Eusebi Arnau -- including animals blowing glass and taking photos, these having been the owner's hobbies. Another is Puig's exquisitely decorated house for the Baron Quadras, now a museum of musical instruments; a third, the Venetian-Gothic Casa Marti, housed the center of Barcelona's artistic bohemia, the Four Cats cafe, where established artists like Ramon Casas hobnobbed with younger...
Exploring this rich, fecund world is the high point of the expedition. In camp we eat pasta flavored with dried soups and sausages, but Fay uncovers more exotic treats on the forest floor. He likes to pick up half-eaten fruits left by the animals and to sample the untouched parts. I try the juicy kernels of a Myrianthus arboreus fruit and decide that gorillas know a good taste when they find...
...showcases this humongous godmamma of the blues in full cry, scorching the earth with New Gulf Coast Blues and Dixie Flyer Blues, marvelously backed by the likes of Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson. BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LEGACY (1933-1958) (Columbia) is a shrewdly chosen 70-cut package from her fecund Columbia years, bound to urge anyone with ears on to the complete -- and completely indispensable -- Columbia recordings (available on nine separate CDs). BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE COMPLETE DECCA RECORDINGS (GRP) includes 50 performances from 1944 to 1950 that push Lady Day toward pop but still keep her sensuality and edge...
...grappling with the state's worst-ever drought, now entering its fifth year. Farmers, who contribute $17.6 billion to California's $735 billion-a-year economy, last week absorbed a double blow. The state Department of Water Resources, which normally supplies water to major farming areas in the fecund San Joaquin Valley, suspended all agricultural deliveries of the water it controls. Meanwhile the Federal Government warned of up to 75% cutbacks in the low-priced water from its reservoirs over the next few weeks. City governments convened emergency sessions to consider strict rationing for business and residential users...
Their annual spawning is a sight so bizarre that it draws voyeurs from distant lands to the sandy shores some twelve miles northwest of Cape May, N.J. Lugging cameras, British journalists fly here to film the fecund scene. Japanese scientists gawk at the colossal display of concupiscence. American entrepreneurs profit from it. Biologists study it, and schoolchildren puzzle over it. Oblivious, the crabs just do their primal thing...