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...names with ease. He often prefaces a sermon at the local filling station on this or that May fly with the words, "Well, I hate to say this, but I don't believe those were Baetis propinquas." Or Ephemerella infrequens. Or Epeorus albertae. But Lempke reserves his finest pronunciation and greatest admiration for Ephemerella grandis, a.k.a. the green drake. "They're damn pretty, for bugs," he says...
Fumiko Enchi wrote Masks 25 years ago, but only this year did Knopf publish an English translation. Enchi is described as one of Japan's most important women writers, Masks as her finest work. However, an unlikely plot, combined with a superficial theme and vacuous characterization, make that boast at best difficult to believe...
...Swiss National Tourist Office, "you can eat in ordinary restaurants with reasonable prices and have a very good meal. You do not have to go to the luxury restaurants." Nonetheless, grande cuisine can be savored in Switzerland, notably at Girardet, near Lausanne, which ranks as one of the finest "French" restaurants in Europe...
They practically tumble off the shelves in an avalanche of stars and toques, bursting open with emphatic recommendations and indignant dismissals in unprecedented profusion; if they could talk, there would be an argument. The best hotel in Paris? The finest painting in the Prado? The tastiest little trattoria in Trastevere? Guidebooks, those quirky, opinionated and impassioned travelers' aids tout the virtues of everything from a stroll down the Strand to a tour of the catacombs. A sampling of the more comprehensive...
DIED. Edwin Denby, 80, America's finest dance critic (Looking at the Dance), whose meticulous analytical skills were gloriously partnered by his vivid, poetic language; by his own hand, after a long illness; in Searsport, Me. Educated at Harvard and the Vienna University, Denby wrote for the New York Herald Tribune during World War II and went on to become the foremost critic of classical American ballet, reserving his highest praise for the work of Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins and especially George Balanchine...