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Fishmongers, rejoice. If the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have their way, the eating of fish on Fridays may once again become a habit for American Catholics. When the hierarchy meets this week in Washington, it is likely to approve a one-year study on how to revive the old penitential practice of abstaining from meat each Friday. The bishops' pro-life committee wants the dietary regimen to serve as a silent protest against the "culture of death," especially legalized abortion and euthanasia. No meat on Fridays was long a strict church rule, observed by millions "under pain...
...scenes in Venice are lovely to look at and lovingly filmed: Softley admits that the prospect of shooting in that city was one of the most enticing aspects of the project. Again, his cinematic imagery, without being particularly inventive, has a certain visceral power: a walk through a fish-market, capturing a weird, peculiarly nauseating kind of carnality, serves to underscore Milly's physical fragility; the sunlight and warm, golden-tinted colors of Venice give way to driving rain and bleak grayness as Milly's impending discovery of Kate's and Merton's treachery looms near. To complete the contrast...
Books, cards, pictures and papers are everywhere--"all the things I hope to read more carefully," Herschbach, who sits in front of the "Fish" screen saver, says...
...first question facing Scribner and its parent Simon & Schuster--the big fish that had swallowed an earlier, smaller-fry publisher of Joy--was how to get Ethan Becker on board for the new project. An advance payment of more than a million dollars provided a satisfactory answer for all the parties involved. Ethan is hence listed on the cover and title page along with Irma and Marion as the author of the Joy of Cooking. But how many verses, people in publishing and in the intensely competitive world of chefs and cookbook writers wondered, often loudly, did Ethan really sing...
...computers like cars: you don't have to know how they work in order to operate one. If you can't get it to work properly, someone will fix it for you. And once you're used to one, you will never want to be without it. LYNN MOSS Fish Hoek, South Africa...