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...task. "I can't ever get over how difficult it is to develop knowledge about Italian food," she says. "You go to a Chinese restaurant, and people are eating with chopsticks. But give them a spoon with pasta, and they don't know how to roll it on the fork!" That's not all. "Why is pasta overcooked in America? Why is it oversauced? I get depressed." She regrets having put a cold-pasta recipe in her More Classic Italian Cookbook, which apparently sparked America's pasta-salad boom in the '80s. "I'm so embarrassed," she rails, explaining that...
Opponents warned that the cost might well balloon to $3 billion, and doubted that Washington would fork over anything like $500 million. (Skinner promised that "the Federal Government is going to help in a very substantial way," but he studiously avoided being pinned down to a figure.) Thus, they insisted, the project would force tax increases that Denver residents could not afford. The two main airlines servicing Denver, United and Continental, point out that Stapleton still has 25 unused gates; some expansion of runway capacity, they argued, was all that was needed. But the vote made it obvious that...
...discard it." They let him dream of anything. "Growing up, I always pictured myself as a baseball player, but I can't remember how many hands I had in my dreams. I never thought to myself, 'Wow, I only have one hand. Can I eat with a certain fork?' I just did things...
...grill. It is his wedding night, and he and his bride have just had their first tiff as husband and wife. Eventually, she stops sulking and joins him. "Dropping to her knees," Exley writes, "she grasped my bare thighs and begged me to please, please, please remove the grilling fork from my chest." Exley, in other words, is up to the same trick he demonstrated in A Fan's Notes (1968) and Pages from a Cold Island (1975): spinning out fanciful autobiographical legends that regularly leave the author skewered...
...Teton National Park. Ignited by lightning and whipped by high winds, the flames have threatened some of the park's most popular sites, including Old Faithful. Last week more than 500 tourists and employees were evacuated from one of Yellowstone's main tourist villages after the so-called North Fork fire burned within two miles. The swift fires occasionally raced into areas before park officials could warn tourists to stay away. "We could have stopped this," complained one of the 8,000 weary fire fighters battling the blazes last week. "They...