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...typical still life of earlier centuries-the 17th century Dutch table, say, cascading with "parrot tulips and gold beakers, fur, fruit, fish, feather and dew-drops-was a symbol of appropriation. It declared the owner's 5 power to seize and keep the real stuff of the world. Even the still lifes of that great master of meditative vision, Chardin, tend to retain this emblematic quality; it was written into his social background. In Morandi, things are otherwise...
DIED. Walter Knott, 91, entrepreneur who converted a California roadside fruit stand into Knott's Berry Farm, a multimillion-dollar enterprise; in Buena Park, Calif. Knott, who once marketed jellies and jams and expanded into fried-chicken dinners, opened Knott's Berry Farm in 1940. The family-owned operation now includes an amusement park, which draws more than 5 million visitors a year, a number exceeded only by the Disney theme parks in Florida and California...
...golden-crested male bird about the size of a bluejay . It was standing in front of a remarkable structure of its own making, a 4-ft.-high bower of long sticks and fronds, shaped like a Maypole around a sapling and surrounded by three piles of artfully arranged fruit- blue, green and yellow. The male "held a bright blue fruit in its bill and pointed it toward the female, so it could be seen against the background of its golden crest." The courting creature also emitted a series of odd cries while quivering its crest seductively. Diamond watched...
...author is as handy with richesses like sweet-sour duck with cherries as she is with simplicities like fruit flans and potato gnocchi (which originated in Provence, not Italy). Her anthology of country stews-meat, fish and game-is thorough, as is her catalogue raisonné of cheeses. Some of the most luscious of all regional dishes are sweet: the fruity pound cake of the Loire, the tangy tartlets of Rouen and the fritters from the Alps known as pets de nonne (the name suggests they are gaseous). Willan also serves up historical tidbits. For example: Proust's madeleines...
...quick shower and change, the booters congregated at Chi-Chi's for the real triumphal festivities.... The Harvard contingent spent the Eastern Tournament weekend at the Willamantic Motel Inn, outside of Storrs, Conn. The tourney festivities kicked off on Friday afternoon with a women's soccer "social," which featured fruit punch for all the participating teams at the Alumni Center. The Crimson left early and went to Rosale's for a "rustic" dinner in front of a fire. Rumor has it that the team's waitress is still telling the story about the party of 24 that asked for separate...